October 4, 2002 | With all the cool detachment of a research scientist preparing a monograph for his peers, Paul Schrader takes a rigorously nonjudgmental view at the untidy life…

October 19, 1990 | Sam Krichinsky arrives in America in 1914, and makes it to Baltimore just in time for the Fourth of July. Dazzled by the celebratory bursts of fireworks,…

August 14, 1998 | Maybe you feared something dreadful was forthcoming when you heard that Warner Bros. would not preview The Avengers in time for opening-day reviews. If so, here’s more…

June 27, 2001 | After trudging through the swamplands of Florida for his incendiary Rosewood and parading through the mean streets of Manhattan for his reconstituted Shaft, John Singleton has…

April 7, 1995 | If you simply can't wait until Mel Gibson and Danny Glover get around to making another Lethal Weapon movie, you can satisfy your craving for slam-bang…

June 7, 2002 | This weekend at your friendly neighborhood megaplex, you can take your pick of nightmare scenarios. On one screen, there's the deadly serious nuking of Baltimore in…

September 20, 2002 | It's tempting to compare Ballistic: Ecks vs. Sever to a video game, but that would be giving it more credit for substance and coherence than it…

October 12, 2001 | Imagine a tangy goulash of Jules and Jim and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with a side order of Bonnie and Clyde and a smidgen…

September 20, 2002 | OK, stop me if you've heard this one: A free spirit flits back into the life of a long-lost friend, eager to reminisce about their shared…

January 4, 1996 | Once again, Terry Gilliam has seen the future, and it's a mess. In Brazil, his exuberantly paranoid vision of a post-1984 totalitarian state, he offered us…