Brian Cox

Buyers Beware, Or: Will Desperate Times Call For Desperate Measures at Sundance Film Festival?

Violence rules

Treading familiar battleground, The Boxer weighs in a little light

USA Film Fest Unspools New Titles, Rare Favorites, Worthy Tributes, Starck Club Doc

Good Lord, was Blood Simple really 25 years ago, USA Film Festival honoree M. Emmet Walsh?A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year's shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the t ... More >>

Boy Trouble

Good Lord, was Blood Simple really 25 years ago, USA Film Festival honoree M. Emmet Walsh?A little late in the day, but the USA Film Festival just sent out the schedule for this year's shindig, which runs April 29 through May 3 at the Angelika Film Center in Mockingbird Station. To save us all the t ... More >>

Drink up

Better off dead? The Minus Man thinks so.

Killer Instinct

David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off in Zodiac

A Guide to Recognizing Your Shrinks

Coming of age and coming out in the Me Decade

Double Fault

Woody Allen's Match Point can't return serve

Fellowship of The Ringer

Johnny Knoxville's still an ass, but his co-stars are something special

Flight Risk

Wes Craven takes a cue from Hitchcock aboard the Red Eye

Pitt and the Pabulum

Brad's ripped and The Iliad's shredded in the scintillating spectacle Troy

Punk Monk

Paul Bettany gets medieval in The Reckoning

Violent Femmes

Tender-hearted mutants kick significant keister in X-2: X-Men United

Ground Zero Hour

A man's last day of freedom becomes Spike's meditation on September 11

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Tapeheads

Gore Verbinski and Naomi Watts throw their hats into The Ring

Glory Bound

A Shot at Glory veers just wide of its goal

Durham Bull

In The Rookie, a middle-aged man throws heat but leaves us cold

The Awful Truth

The malaise of one suburban teen is made vivid in the disturbing first feature film L.I.E.

Pitcher's duel

Schmaltzy and then some, For Love of the Game is still mighty persuasive

Lover men

Three new films offer different takes on the myth of the romantic hero

Starck Memories of When Dallas Was Cool

The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I'll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you're in need of a full schedule -- the official Web site's still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks back, the honorees are the fest's highlights: ... More >>

X-Men Origins: Wolverine

The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I'll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you're in need of a full schedule -- the official Web site's still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks back, the honorees are the fest's highlights: ... More >>

Red: Maybe Not the Best, But Surely the Classiest Comic-book Movie.

The USA Film Festival kicks off today at the Angelika Film Center, though I'll still have to refer you to our April 14 item if you're in need of a full schedule -- the official Web site's still not, well, working at the moment. And, as I noted two weeks back, the honorees are the fest's highlights: ... More >>