Subject: Catherine Keener

• The Penn is Mightier

  September 10, 2007

• Let's Choke Some Sugar Outta Sundance

  January 24, 2008

• Being Spike Jonze

  The acclaimed rock-video director has made one of the year's oddest, funniest films. So why is he scared of his own shadow?

  November 4, 1999

• Happy Ending

  Soderbergh shoots in digital and hits the target: Hollywood

  August 1, 2002

• A couple of clowns

  August 14, 1997

• But not out of mind

  June 25, 1998

• Hellfire

  August 20, 1998

• Hard copy

  March 4, 1999

• Gregory wise-ass

  December 30, 1999

• Synecdoche, New York

  Art imitates life imitating art in Charlie Kaufman's latest

  November 6, 2008

• The Mind of Malkovich

  October 9, 2008

• Not to Be

  Full of itself and not half as funny as it thinks it is, Hamlet 2 is simply tragic

  August 28, 2008

• Entering Its Second Year, AFI Dallas Avoids the Sophomore Slump

  March 27, 2008

• Amy Ryan is Here, Baby, Here

  Playing down-on-her-luck, Ryan's star rises

  November 1, 2007

• Wide-Open Spaces

  Sean Penn delivers a soulful road movie and refuses to define his subject

  September 27, 2007

• Repeat Offender

  A second, slimmer Capote movie fails to improve on its predecessor

  October 12, 2006

• Lovely, Not Amazing

  Four women struggle to face midlife in Friends With Money

  April 13, 2006

• Writes and Wrongs

  In Capote, a murder leads to a masterpiece leads to an undoing

  October 20, 2005

• Cherry on Top

  The 40-Year-Old Virgin gets a heart-on while telling wonderfully dirty jokes

  August 18, 2005

• Lost in Translation

  All talk and little action, The Interpreter doesn't even make sense

  April 21, 2005

• When He Was Cruel

  Neil LaBute tries to be nice but comes off very savage

  May 8, 2003

• Q: "Why Does Hitler Have an Attitude?"

  A: Buy the DVD for Full Frontal

  February 6, 2003

• Ones and Zeros

  Simone isn't a real actress, but Simone isn't a real movie

  August 22, 2002

• Ringing True

  Lovely and Amazing is slow and low-key but also charming and marvelous

  July 18, 2002

• All Grown Up

  At 32, the USA Film Festival proves it can still play ball

  April 25, 2002

• Kiss Kiss Bang Bang

  The loving and loathing of a poofy rhino informs Death to Smoochy

  March 28, 2002

• By a nose

  The tense but plodding Simpatico is no day at the races

  February 3, 2000

• Pull the strings

  The power of puppetry propels the brilliant Being John Malkovich

  November 4, 1999

• Spike Jonze Can't Quite Get the Spirit of the Wild Things Onscreen

  October 15, 2009