8mm
February 26, 1999 | Late in Joel Schumacher's 8mm, the story of an accidental tourist in the lower circles of hell, there is a moment when private eye Tom Welles (Nicolas…
Nine Queens
April 19, 2002 | Fabian Bielinsky's Nine Queens is a fleet and frisky movie about con artists – and, by extension, con artistry – so I don't want to tell…
Almost Famous
September 13, 2000 | Almost Famous is the kind of idiosyncratic and deeply personal project that usually gets green-lit by a major studio only after a filmmaker scores with a…
American Movie
November 5, 1999 | At a time when the freakish success of The Blair Witch Project may encourage even more would-be filmmakers to borrow funding from friends and max out…
Anger Management
April 11, 2003 | The mere sight of Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson on the same movie poster is enough to make most people smile. So a full-length feature pairing…
Bed Of Roses
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,…
Being John Malkovich
October 1, 1999 | There is something almost quaint about the sophomoric Being John Malkovich, a modestly clever trifle that has been wildly overpraised by people who should know better.…
The Notorious Bettie Page
May 12, 2006 | There’s something at once beguilingly sweet and teasingly elusive about the soft-core superstar portrayed in The Notorious Bettie Page, writer-director Mary Harron’s thoroughly engrossing and scrupulously nonjudgmental…
Beyond The Mat
March 17, 2000 | Early in Beyond the Mat, a documentary that contemplates the phenomenon of professional wrestling as performance art, writer-director Barry W. Blaustein fesses up: He's a die-hard…
The Big Bounce
January 30, 2004 | So insubstantial that it practically evaporates while you're watching it, The Big Bounce is a mild and hazy comic caper in which the actors spend most…