September 14, 1995 | You're still getting settled in your seat, balancing the popcorn on your lap, when Clockers first backhands you across the face. The opening credits glide past…

March 29, 2002 | Some movies are immoderately enjoyable simply because they don't live down to your worst expectations. Yes, I know, we critics are supposed to walk into movies…

December 3, 2004 | "How did you like it?" If you're a film critic, you're often asked this question, or some variation, before you can get out of the theater…

February 27, 2004 | There is no excuse for Broken Lizard's Club Dread, a fiasco bad enough to leave a stain on the screen. Super Troopers, the previous movie written…

June 6, 1996  |  For more than 60 years, readers have delighted in the sly satire of Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm, a mischievous send-up of D.H. Lawrence, Thomas Hardy…

October 17, 1986 | The casting is dead solid perfect. Paul Newman, the gracefully aging veteran, returns to his fighting trim to reprise his role as Fast Eddie Felson, the would-be pool…

October 11, 2002 |  Let's face it: We live in an age when real-life events frequently are far more fantastically absurd or epochally horrific than anything an author or filmmaker…

October 11, 2002 | At one point in Comedian, a funny and fascinating documentary about a seriously demanding profession, Jerry Seinfeld appears on The David Letterman Show to tell a…

July 11, 1997 | Given the abundance of insubstantial sound and fury at the multiplexes during this summer movie season, it's refreshing to find something as ambitious as Contact. Based on the…

April 2, 1999 | Even in his finest efforts as a filmmaker, Robert Altman often comes across as an acerbic cynic who views his characters -- and, to a large degree,…