Notting Hill
May 28, 1999 | If you’re in the market for a love story with lots of laughs, consider the unlikely pairing of a timid bookstore owner and the world’s most…
Serendipity
October 5, 2001 | Like so many other things in life, film criticism isn’t fair. So you shouldn’t be surprised if some of our snippier reviewers toss barbed brickbats at…
The Glass House
September 14, 2001 | There’s something weirdly fascinating about a thriller as potently trashy as The Glass House, something almost indecently attention-grabbing about the lurid overstatement of its B-movie melodramatics.…
The Grey Zone
November 15, 2002 | On a drearily overcast Sunday afternoon 12 years ago, I visited Auschwitz. And for reasons I didn't entirely understand at first, I felt compelled to touch everything…
Happy, Texas
October 1, 1999 | Happy, Texas is a comedy about two escaped convicts who pretend to be gay — and romantically involved — while posing as beauty-pageant producers for the…
Michael Caine on “The Quiet American”
November 17, 2002 | Michael Caine is, by his own admission, “a news junkie,” the kind of compulsive who’ll reflexively tune his TV to CNN during any lull in a day’s activities.…
Virginia Madsen on “Candyman”
October 26, 1992 | The good news is, Virginia Madsen got to go back to her native Chicago to shoot scenes for her new movie, Candyman. The bad news was,…
Candyman
October 16, 1992 | Candyman is unique among recent mad-slasher monster melodramas, in that it has a brain in its head as well as blood on its hands. There’s enough…
River Phoenix on “My Own Private Idaho”
October 13, 1991 | River Phoenix is bleary-eyed and bedraggled, looking and sounding very much like someone who was rudely awakened just a few minutes ago. The 21-year-old actor doesn’t…
Shallow Grave
February 24, 1995 | You may hate yourself the morning after you see it — in fact, you may not like yourself too much even while you’re watching it —…