October 8, 1999 | Terence Stamp glides through the mean streets and posh estates of L.A. like a vengeful wraith in The Limey, Steven Soderbergh’s coolly stylized and aggressively stylish drama…

December 27, 2002 | Can a movie be profoundly distressing and exquisitely affecting at the same time? In the case of The Hours, a quietly and methodically devastating masterwork, the…

March 4, 1988 | Knowing John Huston died shortly after completing The Dead, knowing he was constantly aware of his own fading mortality as he framed every shot and choreographed every…

April 10, 1998 | Imagine a cross between a stand-up comedy routine and an on-the-road documentary, and you're ready for The Big One, Michael Moore's ruthlessly amusing and ruefully insightful…

January 16, 2004 | OK, I'll admit it: When I received the invitation to an advance screening of Disney's Teacher's Pet - a spin-off from a TV cartoon show I'd…

November 2, 2001 | After drifting through the Day-Glo fantasia of Waking Life, his dream-logic crazy-quilt of metaphysical riffing and digital-video doodling, Richard Linklater drops back to earth to get down…

February 16, 2001 | If you’re going to make a romantic comedy about a sprightly nonconformist who sets her sights on an uptight fellow in desperate need of loosening up, keep…

December 10, 1999  | Emmet Ray is the greatest jazz guitarist of the 1930s – something he never tires of telling everyone he meets in Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown –…

September 27, 2002 | There's something positively mind-numbing about the relentless predictability of Sweet Home Alabama, an insipid romantic comedy that forces Reese Witherspoon, the agreeably perky star of Legally…

March 1, 1985  |  The Sure Thing is a nice, sweet-natured, generally unremarkable movie that’s as comfy-cozy and satisfying as a warm bath. The biggest surprise is that it comes…