August 2, 2002 | Take your pick: It's a comedy concert film, a feature-length primal scream or a textbook example of public-relations spin. Or maybe Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat is all of the…

June 18, 1999 | Tearing through the streets of Berlin like lightning on the hoof, Lola (Franka Potente) is a woman on a mission.  Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), her none-too-bright boyfriend, is…

December 14, 2001 |  In the world according to The Royal Tenenbaums – the very best movie of 2001 – genius is a profoundly mixed blessing, and the only thing…

March 11, 2005 | Very early in Robots, the latest animated marvel from the makers of Ice Age, the extraordinary starts to seem perfectly ordinary. And, mind you, I mean that as a…

Juy 16, 2004 | There’s something conspicuously unspectacular about some of the scenes in I, Robot, an exceptionally smart and exciting sci-fi action-adventure directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow) and starring a buff-to-the-max…

November 24, 1999 | Once you get past Glory, Gone with the Wind and, arguably, Gettysburg, it’s difficult to think of many first-rate movies about the Civil War. Ride with the Devil may not rank as truly great…

February 1, 1996 | In Richard Loncraine's audacious and hugely entertaining version of Richard III, the "poisonous hunchbacked toad" of William Shakespeare's historical drama becomes a Machiavellian fascist on the rise. Even more…

August 19, 2005 | Alfred Hitchcock might have recognized a kindred spirit in fellow filmmaker Wes Craven had he lived long enough to see Hitchcock, you may recall, who contemptuously dismissed “the…

January 31, 2003 | Addressing a class of would-be superspies at a CIA training facility, recruiter-instructor Walter Burke (Al Pacino) confirms what the novices already suspect: “You have just stepped through the…

May 28, 2004  |  Think of it as the movie-marketing version of bait and switch. The lobby posters and newspaper ads for Raising Helen show Kate sexy, in a reclining position that emphasizes…