November 30, 2001  |  When I first reviewed Diamond Men more than a year ago at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, I kinda-sorta damned it with faint praise: This “appealingly low-key…

March 26, 1997 | Maybe moviegoers had it better in the 1940s, way back before Access Hollywood and Entertainment Weekly covered every hiccup of on-the-set turmoil. During that more innocent, less…

August 24, 1995 | There's a scene about two-thirds of the way through Robert Rodriguez's Desperado where the stylish villain of the piece, a white-suited drug lord named Bucho (Joaquim de Almeida),…

February 7, 2003 | Imagine The Taming of the Shrew reconfigured as a UPN sitcom, and you’ll be prepared for Deliver Us from Eva, a lightweight romantic comedy that works best…

July 28, 1999 | If you can see only one movie this summer about giant sharks with genetically re-engineered brains -- make sure it's Deep Blue Sea. Of course, you…

January 25, 1996 | Given the long and not always glorious tradition of death-row melodramas, not to mention the unabashed and frequently expressed liberalism of Tim Robbins and Susan Sarandon,…

May 27, 2004 |  Los Angeles has been razed by multiple tornadoes. New Delhi has been blanketed with a phenomenal snowfall. Tokyo has been pummeled by hailstones that David Letterman…

January 24, 2003 | Just about every cheap trick in the Scary Movie Playbook is used at some point in Darkness Falls, a horror thriller that reconfigures the legendarily generous Tooth…

February 21, 2003 | Largely because so many things go wrong - stunningly, breathtakingly wrong - throughout so much of Dark Blue, the movie winds up being, somewhat like a…

February 14, 2003 | In the alternative universe of comic-book movies, there are limits to how much realism we seek or desire. Very few of us would be thrilled to see Batman…