Lakeboat
April 13, 2001 | David Mamet already had several produced plays to his credit before he wrote Lakeboat, a freewheeling and often profanely funny collage of monologues and conversations aboard a…
A Knight’s Tale
May 11, 2001 | Imagine a gallant knight of the Middle Ages praising his clever beloved as "my foxy lady." Imagine 14th-century revelers shaking their booties to David Bowie's "Golden…
Kill Bill Vol. 2
April 16, 2004 | The geysers of blood are tapped down to trickles, the swordfights are more even-sided – one-on-one face-offs, not against-all-odds marathons – and the breakneck pace slows enough…
Kids
August 31, 1995 | Kids is a cunning little art-house fraud that has somehow managed to impress a good number of people who should know a great deal better. Ever…
Kansas City
August 16, 1996 | At once brutally cynical and romantically nostalgic, Robert Altman's Kansas City is a moody and bluesy pipe dream of a movie. Altman describes it as his "jazz…
Just Married
January 10, 2003 | There’s nothing wrong with Just Married that a major script rewrite, several fresh plot twists and maybe a couple of tranquilizer darts couldn’t fix. Come to think…
The Jungle Book 2
February 14, 2003| Consumer alert: The B-Teamers have struck again. The Jungle Book 2 is being sold as a sequel to Walt Disney Productions’ 1967 classic, the last animated feature personally…
Junebug
August 5, 2005 | Unassumingly compelling enough to restore your faith in the American indie movement, Junebug is a richly yet subtly detailed dramedy about the ripple effects of a…
Josie and the Pussycats
April 11, 2001 | Not content to merely recycle yet another slice of '70s pop-culture kitsch, the makers of Josie and the Pussycats have accomplished nothing short of alchemy. Drawing…
Joe’s Apartment
August 1, 1996 | All-singing, all-dancing -- and, yes, all-crawling -- Joe's Apartment is the world's first live-action musical comedy in which singing and dancing cockroaches perform elaborate production numbers. And…