June 9, 2000 | At once dizzyingly chaotic and dismally lackluster, Gone in 60 Seconds is a slam-bang blur of flashy technique and flaunty attitude that goes nowhere fast. Despite…

May 20, 1998 | This ain't no Barney, this ain't no Toho, this ain't no fooling around. Director Roland Emmerich and producor Dean Devlin, the same guys made millions with Independence Day,…

February 5, 1988 | Right at the start of The Glass Menagerie, one of the most lyrical dramas in the American theatrical canon, Tennessee Williams promises an evening of beautiful artifice. But…

April 30, 2004 | A shameless recycling of clichés and conventions that passed their expiration dates more than two decades ago, Godsend limps into theaters this week as an unwelcome…

February 21, 2003 | At its frequent, literally awesome best, Gettysburg - writer-director Ronald F. Maxwell's 1993 Civil War epic based on The Killer Angels, the late Michael Shaara's Pulitzer…

May 5, 2000 | There hasn’t been a full-blown sword-and-sandal spectacle like Gladiator in nearly four decades. So long, in fact, that most moviegoers below a certain age might hear the…

April 9, 2004 |  Risky Business is recycled as frisky glibness in The Girl Next Door , a tickle-and-tease teen-sex comedy about a straight-arrow high school senior who discovers his…

October 24, 1997 | In the brave new world imagined by writer-director Andrew Niccol in Gattaca, a visually arresting but dramatically uninvolving sci-fi trifle, genetically-engineered test-tube babies grow up to become…

December 20, 2002 | One of the precious few movies of 2002 with a legitimate claim to greatness, Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited, much-anticipated Gangs of New York is a blood-and-thunder American epic,…

September 5, 2003 |  Some actors –- especially some comic actors -- are almost too good for their own good when it comes to creating and sustaining an on-screen persona.…