April 26, 2002 | How's this for an entrance? Smack dab in the middle of a blazing hotel room – or, perhaps, some lower circle of hell – an indolent trumpet player…

December 14, 1995 | Perhaps the very best fairy tales are those that allow for the possibility that, sometimes, Prince Charming gets lost along the way and doesn't find his sleeping beauty.…

August 2, 2002 | Take your pick: It's a comedy concert film, a feature-length primal scream or a textbook example of public-relations spin. Or maybe Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat is all of the…

June 18, 1999 | Tearing through the streets of Berlin like lightning on the hoof, Lola (Franka Potente) is a woman on a mission.  Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu), her none-too-bright boyfriend, is…

December 14, 2001 |  In the world according to The Royal Tenenbaums – the very best movie of 2001 – genius is a profoundly mixed blessing, and the only thing…

March 11, 2005 | Very early in Robots, the latest animated marvel from the makers of Ice Age, the extraordinary starts to seem perfectly ordinary. And, mind you, I mean that as a…

Juy 16, 2004 | There’s something conspicuously unspectacular about some of the scenes in I, Robot, an exceptionally smart and exciting sci-fi action-adventure directed by Alex Proyas (The Crow) and starring a buff-to-the-max…

November 24, 1999 | Once you get past Glory, Gone with the Wind and, arguably, Gettysburg, it’s difficult to think of many first-rate movies about the Civil War. Ride with the Devil may not rank as truly great…

February 1, 1996 | In Richard Loncraine's audacious and hugely entertaining version of Richard III, the "poisonous hunchbacked toad" of William Shakespeare's historical drama becomes a Machiavellian fascist on the rise. Even more…

August 19, 2005 | Alfred Hitchcock might have recognized a kindred spirit in fellow filmmaker Wes Craven had he lived long enough to see Hitchcock, you may recall, who contemptuously dismissed “the…