Steven Seagal fans won't even go for this lame hostage movie
By Luke Y. Thompson,
November 14, 2002
If the title is a Jeopardy question, then the answer might be "How does Steven Seagal come across these days?" or maybe "How will you feel after... More>>
This 1946 version of Beauty and the Beast is enchantingly fantastic
By Jean Oppenheimer,
November 14, 2002
So enchanting it takes your breath away, Jean Cocteau's 1946 live-action version of the famous fairy tale remains one of the most magical films... More>>
Pickins are Slim Shady, but Eminem busts out of a bad movie
By Robert Wilonsky,
November 07, 2002
Three years on, the besieged phenomenon--the scourge, Antichrist or the Vanilla Ice of the '90s, pick 'em--has been rendered beloved; when they,... More>>
Campbell Scott looks for lust in all the wrong places as Roger Dodger
By Bill Gallo,
November 07, 2002
The repellent Casanova portrayed by Campbell Scott in Roger Dodger has an instinct for looking up skirts and down blouses, but no capacity for... More>>
In Mike Leigh's latest, love means never having to say you're sorry
By Luke Y. Thompson,
November 07, 2002
The question "All right?" is asked of every character, on many occasions, throughout Mike Leigh's latest film, All or Nothing. In working-class... More>>
In his second feature, Native American filmmaker Chris Eyre goes further beneath the surface
By Bill Gallo,
November 07, 2002
Director Chris Eyre, whose engaging 1997 road movie, Smoke Signals, helped energize a modest new wave of Native American filmmaking, is bound to... More>>
Julie Taymor and Salma Hayek paint a spectacular portrait of Frida Kahlo
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 31, 2002
With Frida--the story of profoundly passionate and uncompromising Mexican-Jewish painter Frida Kahlo--it's evident that a few folks in marketing... More>>
Northern Ireland's troubles explode in a new depiction of Bloody Sunday
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 31, 2002
Listen up, retards: Killing time is over. Melt down your weapons, now, forever.
Wouldn't it be nice if that sentiment echoed around the world?... More>>
From the SMU vaults, a collection of bad movies with, ahem, good intentions
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 31, 2002
For Eric Schaefer, it all began when he was a masters film student at the University of Texas at Austin in the mid-1980s. One day, he stumbled... More>>
There's an invigorating, inspiring film about a famous dead person opening in a few days: Julie Taymor's Frida, scheduled to arrive November 1,... More>>
Michael Moore goes threshing about in search of fear itself
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 24, 2002
If you're a fan of the baseball-cap-wearin', Nader-votin', muckrakin', best-sellin', corporation-confrontin' son of a gun known as Michael Moore,... More>>
Jonathan Demme remakes Charade, but it's hardly an imitation
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 24, 2002
Once more, it all boils down to the stamps--which, if you have seen Stanley Donen's 1963 comic-thriller Charade, nearly ruins the last 10 minutes... More>>
Starting fresh, Jerry Seinfeld once again works hard for nothing
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 24, 2002
You ever notice those people? You know, the so-called "stand-up comedians"? Who are those people? What's the deal with them? And what does that... More>>
Generations and cultures collide in the complex, moving Real Women Have Curves
By Jean Oppenheimer,
October 24, 2002
The current TV ad campaign for the sleeper hit My Big Fat Greek Wedding plays cleverly on the film's cross-cultural appeal by substituting the... More>>
Waking Up in Reno is not that bad, but it's not that good, either
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 24, 2002
Not as bad as its rep--Miramax has been hiding this sucker on the shelf for danged near two years--but not good enough to overcome its status as... More>>
The Grey Zone raises some important moral questions
By Jean Oppenheimer,
October 24, 2002
This exceedingly graphic Holocaust drama concerns the Auschwitz Sonderkommando, a special squad of Jewish prisoners who, in exchange for better... More>>
Adam Sandler plays Adam Sandler, and for once it's lovely
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 17, 2002
Paul Thomas Anderson, the would-be Altman without the madman-genius baggage getting in the way, has forever ruined Adam Sandler. No longer will... More>>
Tom Tykwer's latest heroine on the run is far from fleet of foot
By Luke Y. Thompson,
October 17, 2002
Give Tom Tykwer considerable credit for knowing he couldn't possibly outdo Run Lola Run, his frenetic breakthrough that made critics cheer and... More>>
Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts throw their hats into The Ring
By Gregory Weinkauf,
October 17, 2002
Much like a psychic, a cinema critic must look through a movie and see the other side. In the case of the new thriller The Ring--a remake of the... More>>
