November 19, 1999| According to the credits, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is based on the classic story by Washington Irving. But that seems a mere formality. Burton, the gleefully Goth visionary…

July 29, 2005 | Sky High qualifies as that most serendipitous of moviegoing pleasures, an altogether pleasant surprise. Smartly written and sprightly played, it’s a clever commingling of spoofy superheroics, school-daze high…

August 12, 2005 | A genuinely clever final plot twist and a few modestly creepy scenes are not quite enough to seal the deal for The Skeleton Key, a low-voltage shocker…

November 22, 2001 | Maybe the folks at Paramount Classics should have stuck to their original plan, and opened Edward Burns’ Sidewalks of New York late last summer. Back then, we…

May 16, 2001 | Once upon a time, some impudent rascals at DreamWorks Pictures had a nifty idea: They would produce a tongue-in-cheeky animated fairy tale. Their movie would spoof…

February 5, 1988 | Filmmaker John Hughes, heretofore the poet laureate of American teen-age foibles, has a marvelous coming of age in She's Having a Baby. Until now, Hughes has been widely known,…

November 9, 2001 | I never expected to be using the words "sweet" and "sensitive" in a review of a movie co-directed by Bobby and Peter Farrelly, the cheery vulgarians…

December 11, 1998| To paraphrase the Bard of Avon himself: Shakespeare in Love is a hit, a palpable hit. At once passionately romantic and exuberantly clever, the movie imagines a William…

August 25, 1989  |  Steven Soderbergh’s sex, lies, and videotape offers everything promised in its provocative title, and much more. It is no small compliment to say this small-budget, high-profile independent production almost…