Jonathan Demme's documentary brings a joyful revolutionary to the screen
By Melissa Levine,
June 10, 2004
Every once in a while, you encounter a person who seems to have been born under an urgent, righteous star--a person who is both a fiery activist... More>>
The Prisoner of Azkaban takes a Sirius-ly dark turn
By Luke Y. Thompson,
June 03, 2004
As much of the civilized world now knows, the latest Harry Potter director is Alfonso Cuaron, best known for the explicit teen sexual awakening... More>>
Ah, the peculiar genius that is Guy Maddin. Who else but the morose Canadian director, born and raised in one of the coldest cities in the world,... More>>
Childhood games turn into obsession in Love Me If You Dare
By Gregory Weinkauf,
June 03, 2004
It's a sign that a nation may be losing its collective mind when it grants a nutty hack like Quentin Tarantino an exalted title like officer of... More>>
Hudson's a bad mother, and sister, in this pat parenthood tale
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 27, 2004
Sitting through Raising Helen is an exercise in frustration, because somewhere inside this big heap of Hollywood nothing is a something (someone,... More>>
Jim Jarmusch serves the perfect blend: Coffee and Cigarettes
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 27, 2004
The first time through, you might dismiss Coffee and Cigarettes as a filmmaker's recess, playtime before the serious business of making a real... More>>
A killer cat steals a wonderful movie from a kindly ogre
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 20, 2004
The first few minutes of Shrek 2 are cluttered with more references to the movies than David Thomson's thick, rich history text New Biographical... More>>
Python's Brian returns, bearing cinematic salvation
By Gregory Weinkauf,
May 20, 2004
In 2004 A.D., as the five remaining members of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe lie in coffins in a Vanity Fair spread to jeer at their... More>>
Brad's ripped and The Iliad's shredded in the scintillating spectacle Troy
By Bill Gallo,
May 13, 2004
In the mood to launch a thousand ships? Fine, but it's gonna cost you. Feel like sacking the Temple of Apollo? OK, but bring drachmas. Depending... More>>
A man eats fast food for a month--guess what happens
By Robert Wilonsky,
May 13, 2004
What becomes of Morgan Spurlock's body after a month of eating and drinking nothing but McDonald's assembly-line foodstuffs is not surprising. He... More>>
Breakin’ All the Rules
Part of an ever-expanding subgenre that includes The Brothers, Two Can Play That Game and Deliver Us From Eva, Breakin... More>>
Stephen Chow's kung fu/soccer spoof is fun, sort of
By Melissa Levine,
May 06, 2004
If you've seen a movie at a Landmark theater in the past year or so, you've probably enjoyed the trailer for Shaolin Soccer. Over a lilting Asian... More>>
If you're young and female, New York Minute is your movie
By Jean Oppenheimer,
May 06, 2004
That sound you hear is the stampeding feet of millions of pubescent and prepubescent girls racing to movie theaters this weekend to catch sisters... More>>
Talking smack wreaks high school havoc in Mean Girls
By Gregory Weinkauf,
April 29, 2004
One thing few may mention about Mean Girls is that it could have been unrelentingly terrible. It isn't--it's actually pretty fabulous on its own... More>>
Laws of Attraction is so generic it oughta be illegal
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 29, 2004
Laws of Attraction is the kind of film you might mistake for "cute" or "charming" at first glance. Maybe you will open the paper and spot the ad... More>>
This may sound an eensy bit hyperbolic, but dig: Mayor of the Sunset Strip is the greatest rock-and-roll movie of all time.
Of course, as with... More>>
Those seeking a spiritual counterpart to the yin of Lynne Ramsay's masterfully moody Morvern Callar will find their yang in David Mackenzie's... More>>
Korea's Kim Ki-duk transforms social philosophy into visual poetry
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April 29, 2004
Ever evolving, always changing, the universe nonetheless sustains many constants: Hair metal never really goes away. British women inevitably... More>>
I am going to give 13 Going on 30 too much credit, though it's hardly worth the effort; Lord knows the filmmakers didn't put much into it. It's a... More>>
It's the docs that rock this year's USAFF schedule
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 22, 2004
Among the so-called highlights of this year's USA Film Festival, which opens Thursday and runs through April 29, is Napoleon Dynamite, which sold... More>>
If only Dogville were at least involving enough to be perplexing. Sigh. In simplest terms--which it definitely deserves--Lars von Trier's latest... More>>
The Bride's back for blood, this time without the mess
By Robert Wilonsky,
April 15, 2004
The six-month intermission is over; those of you left in the lobby, wondering if Uma Thurman ever did kill Bill, may now return to your seats and... More>>
