August 9, 2002 | Chalk it up as one of the season's more amusing ironies of megaplex counter-programming. On the same weekend that up-and-comer Vin Diesel is launched as the…

October 2, 2002 | Actions speak louder and more coherently than words in Bloody Sunday, Paul Greengrass' brutally gripping yet coolly distanced drama about the massacre of Irish Catholic protesters…

July 27, 2001 | Bob Montagne (Roger Duchesne) walks like a slumming prince through the shadowland of pre-dawn Paris. His hat tilted at a jaunty angle, a cigarette dangling from…

November 25, 1992 | At one point in The Bodyguard, a slick and savvy romantic thriller featuring Kevin Costner as the title character, our hero takes his latest client to a…

September 12, 1996 | In synopsis, Bogus sounds like something too precious for words and too cute by half. A seven-year-old boy, devastated by the loss of his mother, invents an…

October 12, 1997 | In this era of high-tech trickery and humongous body counts, Hollywood screenwriters face a unique challenge: How do you keep the audience interested during the minutes between bigger,…

February 22, 1996 | At a time when it seems as though half the new young filmmakers want to be Quentin Tarantino, while the other half want to be Martin Scorsese,…

October 22, 1999 | Brandon Teena knew what girls like. During the opening minutes of the mesmerizing Boys Don't Cry, we get a chance to see Brandon make some smooth…

December 29, 1978 | Brass Target is fool’s gold. This lethargic copy of Day of the Jackal spins a fantastic yarn about a plot by corrupt US Army officers to kill…

September 17, 1999 | Stunned disbelief is the only rational response to Breakfast of Champions, a ghastly misfire that brings out the self-indulgent worst in everyone involved. The scenario, based…