March 6, 1998 | And now for something completely different: The Big Lebowski, an outrageously funny and indescribably weird shaggy-dog comedy from Joel and Ethan Coen, the moviemaking siblings who last enthralled…

June 2, 2000 | How much mileage can a movie get from a single sight gag? Only a middling amount, judging from Big Momma's House, a textbook example of a…

September 26, 1996 | If you are dieting, you might do well to avoid Big Night, a rhapsodic ode to culinary bliss in the delicious tradition of Babette's Feast and Eat…

April 5, 2002 | Several very talented people are listed in the opening credits of Big Trouble, and there are times when many of them appear determined to turn this…

November 21, 2001 | The hero rises above his humble station by pretending to be nobility, the heroine is a feminist several centuries before the heyday of Gloria Steinem, the…

July 30, 1999  | The power of suggestion and the potency of imagination are exploited with uncommon cunning by the makers of The Blair Witch Project, an ingeniously creepy horror film…

June 29, 1991 |  Early in the remarkable documentary Blood in the Face, one of the interview subjects calmly explains his game for a better, more wholesome, less mongrelized America: "Basically,…

August 9, 2002 | Chalk it up as one of the season's more amusing ironies of megaplex counter-programming. On the same weekend that up-and-comer Vin Diesel is launched as the…

October 2, 2002 | Actions speak louder and more coherently than words in Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass' brutally gripping yet coolly distanced drama about the massacre of Irish Catholic protesters…

July 27, 2001 | Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) walks like a slumming prince through the shadowland of pre-dawn Paris. His hat tilted at a jaunty angle, a cigarette dangling from…