February 9, 2001 | It’s been ten years since an infamous psychiatrist with a taste for human entrails escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane in The Silence of the…

September 14, 1995 | Since the title of the film is Hackers, not Garbage Men or Meter Maids, it should come as no great surprise that this is a story about high-tech…

January 17, 2003 | A Guy Thing is a good movie that occasionally appears poised to turn into something better, or at least edgier. Here and there amid the lightly amusing…

November 15, 2002  |  On a drearily overcast Sunday afternoon 12 years ago, I visited Auschwitz. And for reasons I didn't entirely understand at first, I felt compelled to touch…

September 12, 1996 | Illeana Douglas made an unforgettable impression in her first movie role, but it wasn't her fault. She played the unfortunate young woman in Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear…

November 21, 2003  |  By assuming the lead role in the absurdly muddled Gothika, Halle Berry may have done more to prove the existence of an “Oscar curse” than any…

January 4, 2002 | According to showbiz legend, Miami Vice came to be after NBC honcho Brandon Tartikoff scribbled a genre-blending high concept on a cocktail napkin: “MTV cops.” It’s easy…

April 2, 2003  |  When your mug shot appears as the punchline for an Oscarcast opening monologue, it's usually an indication that your career, along with your life, has taken…

June 9, 2000 | At once dizzyingly chaotic and dismally lackluster, Gone in 60 Seconds is a slam-bang blur of flashy technique and flaunty attitude that goes nowhere fast. Despite…

May 20, 1998 | This ain't no Barney, this ain't no Toho, this ain't no fooling around. Director Roland Emmerich and producor Dean Devlin, the same guys made millions with Independence Day,…