May 3, 2002 | The simplicity of the storytelling and the eloquence of the imagery make Baran fascinating in ways that transcend any barriers of culture or language. Yes, this…

November 21, 2003 |  Appropriately enough for a season when we traditionally divide our time between nostalgic glances backward and anxious gazes forward, we now have writer-director Denys Arcand's The…

August 12, 1994 | Since the death of novelist John Cheever, hardly anyone has dealt with WASP angst as sympathetically and insightfully as writer-director Whit Stillman. And that, mind you, is…

November 12, 1999 | Natalie Portman certainly had her hands full with Darth Maul and other intergalactic bad guys in Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace. But the…

June 26, 1992 | In the view of filmmaker Peter Cohen, writer and director of The Architecture of Doom, the terrible phenomenon of Adolf Hitler and his Nazi nightmare must be…

July 9, 1999 | For as along as you remain inside the theater - perched, more often than not, on the edge of your seat - Arlington Road is suspenseful…

July 6, 1998 | Armageddon is the second and presumably last of the summer blockbusters about a possible collision between Earth and a giant hunk of rock. Much like its predecessor,…

January 19, 2005 | It is a dark and snowy night. New Year’s Eve, to be precise. At Precinct 13, a gone-to-seed police station in the wilds of Detroit, Sgt. Jake…

June 8, 2001 | The thin line between boisterous fun and games and bombastic sound and fury is repeatedly crossed, and frequently smudged, during Atlantis: The Lost Empire, the latest…

July 26, 2002 | That insistent scratching noise you hear throughout Austin Powers in Goldmember is the sound of filmmakers scraping the very bottom of the barrel. Some of the…