August 8, 1996 | Snake Plissken is back, and he's still pissed. This singularly surly antihero first appeared in Escape from New York, John Carpenter's 1981 cult classic. Still a popular…

April 19, 2002 | Most mainstream movies, even most hugely entertaining ones, are like wallpaper: They don't require much effort to fully appreciate, because what you see is what you…

March 17, 2000 |  Your heart may start to sink when you read the words “based on a true story” – a phrase that usually portends the moral uplift and…

April 27, 2001  |  In Driven , a furiously flashy and thunderously loud movie about personal and professional upheavals on the Championship Auto Racing Team circuit, Sylvester Stallone makes yet another…

January 18, 1996 | Very early in a marathon battle with undead predators, a clash that takes up most of the second half of From Dusk Till Dawn, a flustered anti-hero…

November 22, 2002 | Be forewarned: The Emperor’s Club takes a defiantly severe if not absolutist view of ethical rigor (good), moral relativism (not so good) and ends-justifies-means compromise (very, very bad).…

May 7, 1999  |  For a movie that has been bumping around the international festival circuit for more than two years, The Empty Mirror seems remarkably fresh and, alas, compellingly…

December 6, 2002 | Much like Extreme Ops, another video-ready movie that won the lottery and got a theatrical release, Empire is while blown up for the big screen. It…

September 15, 2000 |  Duets is a mess, a muddled and meandering long-distance road movie that strives to be engagingly offbeat, but more often comes across as annoyingly off-key. It’s easy…

June 13, 2003 | When is a sequel not a sequel? When it's a "prequel," a critic-speak term coined to describe the likes of Butch and Sundance: The Early Days…