April 16, 2004  | The geysers of blood are tapped down to trickles, the swordfights are more even-sided – one-on-one face-offs, not against-all-odds marathons – and the breakneck pace slows enough…

August 31, 1995 | Kids is a cunning little art-house fraud that has somehow managed to impress a good number of people who should know a great deal better. Ever…

August 16, 1996 | At once brutally cynical and romantically nostalgic, Robert Altman's Kansas City is a moody and bluesy pipe dream of a movie. Altman describes it as his "jazz…

January 10, 2003 | There’s nothing wrong with Just Married that a major script rewrite, several fresh plot twists and maybe a couple of tranquilizer darts couldn’t fix. Come to think…

February 14, 2003| Consumer alert: The B-Teamers have struck again. The Jungle Book 2 is being sold as a sequel to Walt Disney Productions’ 1967 classic, the last animated feature personally…

August 5, 2005 |  Unassumingly compelling enough to restore your faith in the American indie movement, Junebug is a richly yet subtly detailed dramedy about the ripple effects of a…

April 11, 2001 |  Not content to merely recycle yet another slice of '70s pop-culture kitsch, the makers of Josie and the Pussycats have accomplished nothing short of alchemy. Drawing…

August 1, 1996 | All-singing, all-dancing -- and, yes, all-crawling -- Joe's Apartment is the world's first live-action musical comedy in which singing and dancing cockroaches perform elaborate production numbers. And…

December 20, 1991 | Oliver Stone’s JFK is a brilliantly manipulative melodrama, a masterpiece of historical revisionism writ large and urgent in tabloid style. Whether you should believe a word of…

March 26, 2004 | Diehard fans of Clerks, Dogma and Chasing Amy likely will be disappointed, if not pained, by the sentimental hokum of Jersey Girl, an atypically sappy effort…