November 5, 1999 | At a time when the freakish success of The Blair Witch Project may encourage even more would-be filmmakers to borrow funding from friends and max out…
April 11, 2003 | The mere sight of Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson on the same movie poster is enough to make most people smile. So a full-length feature pairing…
January 25, 1996 | Given the long and not always glorious tradition of death-row melodramas, not to mention the unabashed and frequently expressed liberalism of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon,…
October 1, 1999 | There is something almost quaint about the sophomoric Being John Malkovich, a modestly clever trifle that has been wildly overpraised by people who should know better.…
May 12, 2006 | There’s something at once beguilingly sweet and teasingly elusive about the soft-core superstar portrayed in The Notorious Bettie Page, writer-director Mary Harron’s thoroughly engrossing and scrupulously nonjudgmental…
March 17, 2000 | Early in Beyond the Mat, a documentary that contemplates the phenomenon of professional wrestling as performance art, writer-director Barry W. Blaustein fesses up: He's a die-hard…
January 30, 2004 | So insubstantial that it practically evaporates while you're watching it, The Big Bounce is a mild and hazy comic caper in which the actors spend most…
July 13, 2001 | With an unassuming casualness that likely is more apparent than real, first-time filmmaker Thomas Bezucha sustains an air of low-key, warm-hearted whimsy throughout Big Eden, an…
April 28, 2000 | Kevin Spacey strolls into The Big Kahuna with so much cocksure swagger, you might think he's been typecast in the title role. But don't jump to…