A bishop's book becomes a powerful movie about hypocrisy and salvation
By Julie Lyons,
September 30, 2004
If you aren't familiar with Bishop T.D. Jakes, it could only mean you're white or, like much of the entertainment industry and American media,... More>>
John Waters' latest farce strives for nothing more than NC-17
By Melissa Levine,
September 23, 2004
The very best thing about A Dirty Shame, a giddy sex farce from John Waters, is the credits. What's not to love about a list of characters that... More>>
James Toback wastes an uninhibited Neve on a cheesy Adrian Lyne ripoff
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 23, 2004
Here's a message for all you single, horny, hot-blooded, heterosexual males out there: It's time to break out the champagne. Wait, scratch that,... More>>
Silver City plants a shrub where it wants to dig up a Bush
By Robert Wilonsky,
September 16, 2004
Silver City is being marketed as a biting, bitter send-up of George W. Bush. Hence the copious use of trailer footage in which Chris Cooper, as... More>>
Sky Captain zooms back to a tomorrow that never was
By Gregory Weinkauf,
September 16, 2004
Fortune smiles on groovy egregiousness. In the case of Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow, the filmmakers' investment in their weird visions... More>>
A father's Inheritance leads a son to financial success and personal ruin
By ,
September 16, 2004
Hey, have you heard about that new Danish film that just came out? Distributed by Lars von Trier's Zentropa Entertainments, has the same star as... More>>
The sequel to Ghost in the Shell is a feast for the eyes, but a disappointment for the brain
By Luke Y. Thompson,
September 16, 2004
If Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence were a live-action sequel, there would be a lot of gossip about star histrionics, creative conflicts and so... More>>
Isabelle Huppert plummets into the post-apocalyptic Time of the Wolf
By ,
September 16, 2004
Consider a world in which morality and legality have been replaced by frontier-style justice and freakish despotism. In which dwindling resources... More>>
Criminal swipes its story from a far superior movie
By Bill Gallo,
September 09, 2004
The most crucial piece of equipment in Hollywood is obviously not the movie camera. It's not the casting couch. Not even the Rolls-Royce Silver... More>>
The weirdo auteur drives morbidly toward his own money shot in The Brown Bunny
By Gregory Weinkauf,
September 09, 2004
Rare is the film that caters to fans of rabbits, motorcycles, Gordon Lightfoot and fellatio, but now, thanks entirely to Vincent Gallo, we have... More>>
Mira Nair's Victorian England bursts with sensuality, but not impact
By Melissa Levine,
September 02, 2004
In Victorian England, 40,000 novels were published every year. Of the few that have endured, perhaps none is more worthy of a film adaptation... More>>
Danny Deckchair sends an upbeat message from Down Under
By Gregory Weinkauf,
September 02, 2004
Some of the people who helped bring you dank, morose amusements such as The Crow, Dark City and The Matrix have a new movie to offer. Like The... More>>
This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous and graceless diatribe
By Melissa Levine,
August 19, 2004
Every once in a while, a film comes along that so blatantly disregards emotional authenticity that one fears for the sanity of its director. Can... More>>
Michael Winterbottom paints a plausibly problematic tomorrow in Code 46
By Gregory Weinkauf,
August 19, 2004
The future is almost here. At least, it is according to screenwriter Frank Cottrell Boyce (Pandaemonium) and director Michael Winterbottom (24... More>>
The Mexican caper Nicotina is all smoke and no fire
By Robert Wilonsky,
August 19, 2004
The conventional wisdom on Nicotina is that it's a Mexican Snatch. Upon first blush, it's easy to see where the comparisons come from--they're... More>>
This send-up of Deliverance comes without a brain, too
By Bill Gallo,
August 19, 2004
Summer movies don't get much sillier or more empty-headed than Without a Paddle, and that includes Catwoman and King Arthur. What we have here is... More>>
