Ben Affleck

Taking the Shine Off Golden Boys

Bill Maher's Coming to Dallas This Sunday. But Not Before His Unfair Park Interview.

​There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who's-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She Wrote and Newhart amo ... More >>

With Extract, Mike Judge Goes Back To Work

​There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who's-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She Wrote and Newhart amo ... More >>

You Mean Pauly Shore Isn't Dead?

​There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who's-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She Wrote and Newhart amo ... More >>

Ultimate Damon

​There was a time in the 1980s when Bill Maher was little more than a modestly successful comedian for whom small roles on big television shows were considered the mark of having Made It. His early résumé reads like a Nick at Nite who's-who, with roles on Alice; Murder, She Wrote and Newhart amo ... More >>

$30,000 Millionaires: Douchebags in the Mist

Venturing into the Dallas jungle in search of the elusive $30,000 millionaire: Is he myth or fact?

Aye, El Amor

Venturing into the Dallas jungle in search of the elusive $30,000 millionaire: Is he myth or fact?

Afflecks Come Through with Gone Baby Gone

The Ben and Casey come through with a complex, sophisticated Boston crime drama

Thing 1 and Thing 2

What's the real difference between Oakley and Leppert? No, seriously, please tell us.

Again With the Serious Face?

Adam Sandler plays a 9/11 widower and finally nails a somber role

Ace Up His Sleeve

Joe Carnahan's overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

Bennifer Can't Do Dallas

Joe Carnahan's overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Joe Carnahan's overly slick, heavily edited dark comedy works despite itself

U.S.A.-holes

Team America takes no prisoners and spares no swear words

Monsters

Confessions of a white middle-class parent

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Confessions of a white middle-class parent

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Confessions of a white middle-class parent

Punk Monk

Paul Bettany gets medieval in The Reckoning

Favorite Mistake

Other teams screwed up by not taking Josh Howard, which helps the Mavs

Farrelly Mediocre

The idiots what brung you Dumb and Dumber ain't funny no more

Lit Up

It's more fun watching the movie get made than watching the movie

Crime Bites

Plus: From Funland to La-La Land

Down & Dirty

To the extreme

He Sees Everything

Plus: Seeing Red

For Our Homies

Plus: Kaboom, Edited for Content

Flame On

Out of financial and creative bankruptcy, Marvel Comics is mighty once more

New Yakkers

Edward Burns' Sidewalks does more talking than walking

Up the Academy

The Oscar telecast has, for a decade, been Gil Cates' golden moment

For the Love of Mic

Duets explores the world of karaoke singing, and rather sweetly at that

Against the wall

John Frankenheimer could have disappeared, but he refused to go away

Greed is very, very bad

Boiler Room serves up the sons of Gordon Gekko

Batman, not Robin

In Dogma, Jason Lee is no longer Kevin Smith's sidekick

The Mike Douglas of the '90s

In Dogma, Jason Lee is no longer Kevin Smith's sidekick

On the fringes

Most of the year's best films were from the outside looking in