Breaking All The Rules
May 14, 2004 | A cleverly concocted hybrid of conventional romantic comedy and mistaken-identity farce, Breakin' All the Rules is fresh, fleet and funny. Credit writer-director Daniel Taplitz for keeping…
Bringing Out The Dead
October 22, 1999 | Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), the walking-wounded protagonist of Bringing Out the Dead, is a New York City paramedic who works the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen.…
Broken Arrow
February 15, 1996 | Given the current state of high-tech trickery available to filmmakers, just about any director with an adequate budget can give you maximum bang for your box-office…
Bubble Boy
August 24, 2001 | How awful can a movie be without actually leaving a stain on the screen? Bubble Boy skirts perilously close to the outer limits of what can…
Bush’s Brain
August 20, 2004 | Despite the sporadic box-office success of IMAX spectacles and rock-concert extravaganzas, documentaries almost never attract mainstream moviegoers. Indeed, even art-house devotees tend to respond to nonfiction…
The Business Of Strangers
December 7, 2001 | There is a chilly precision to way writer-director Patrick Stettner establishes a vaguely but unmistakably ominous mood during the opening scenes of The Business of Strangers, a mesmerizing…
The Butterfly Effect
January 23, 2004 | As a Twilight Zone type of time-bending, destiny-altering thriller, The Butterfly Effect has a lot going for it: An intriguing premise, intelligently tricky plot twists, sympathetic supporting…
Carried Away
April 11, 1996 | Sitting through Bruno Barreto's Carried Away is a bit like watching someone defuse a bomb. A great deal of your appreciation for what you're seeing is informed…
Casino
November 30, 1995 | Martin Scorsese is a hard act to follow -- even, apparently, if you're Martin Scorsese. Casino, Scorsese's sensationally stylish drama of a mobsters' paradise lost, is a…
Dr. Seuss’s The Cat In The Hat
November 21, 2003 | Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the Dr. Seuss' The Cat in the Hat , a surreally rambunctious farce inspired by the popular children's book, is…