September 25, 1998 | Denis Leary, the acerbic standup comic and motor-oil pitchman with the in-your-face attitude, firmly establishes himself  as a full-fledged film actor in Monument Ave., a sharply observed…

June 15, 2001 | The phrase “rolling in the aisles” used to strike me as the dopiest kind of empty hyperbole. But then, on a fateful afternoon more than 25 years…

May 24, 2000 | Buffer, bolder, and readier than ever to kick ass, cheat death and do prodigious derring-do, the new-and-improved Tom Cruise cuts the mustard as a high-testosterone action figure…

May 23, 1996 | Get a load of this: Tom Cruise thinks fast, and acts faster, to get out of harm's way in a Prague restaurant. With the aid of some…

April 29, 1989 | Miracle Mile is an audacious doomsday thriller with a 20-megaton impact. Deceptively simple and relentlessly gripping, it represents American independent moviemaking at its most exciting and accessible…

February 6, 2004 | Maybe you've heard what Miracle is all about, and have already decided to give it a pass. Take my advice: Think again. In lesser hands, this…

June 21, 2002 | In Minority Report, the stunning sci-fi noir thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, the day after tomorrow doesn't appear at first glance to be very different from today.…

October 19, 1990 | “Nobody knows anybody -- not all that well!'' These are words to live by, voiced repeatedly -- sometimes angrily, sometimes almost sadly -- as the personal credo…

February 29, 1996 | Why, indeed, must the show go on? This question is of more than academic interest to Joe Harper (Michael Maloney), a high-strung, chronically unemployed British actor who…

November 21, 1997 | Even at two and one-half hours, Clint Eastwood's film of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil isn't nearly long enough to encompass all the amusing…