Subject: Chris Cooper

• Oedipus Tex

  June 27, 1996

• Picture imperfect

  January 29, 1998

• Coal miner's son

  February 18, 1999

• Bad trip

  May 6, 1999

• '50s Domestic Drama Married Life Obviously Inspired by Todd Haynes

  March 20, 2008

• Spy Vs. Spy

  Billy Ray takes on another liar: FBI traitor Robert Hanssen

  February 15, 2007

• The terrifying Beauty

  Kevin Spacey is riveting in the year's most harrowing, horrific feel-good story

  September 23, 1999

• Amy Ryan is Here, Baby, Here

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

  November 1, 2007

• Shooting Blanks

  Peter Berg sends Jamie Foxx to fight the enemy over there in The Kingdom

  September 27, 2007

• So Close, and Yet So Far

  The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

  September 13, 2007

• Will Oldham's Trouble With Hollywood

  June 4, 2009

• The War on Film

  Iraq Hits the Big Screen

  December 22, 2005

• Writes and Wrongs

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

  October 20, 2005

• On-Screen Stumping

  October 14, 2004

• Vote No

  Silver City plants a shrub where it wants to dig up a Bush

  September 16, 2004

• Bucking the Odds

  Seabiscuit is a different breed of summer "ride" movie

  July 24, 2003

• Run, Matt, Run

  Damon was Bourne to play an assassin who's lost his way

  June 13, 2002

• Reel lists

  Or: Where in the hell are Three Kings and Election?

  December 30, 1999

• Book 'em

  Separating the wheat from the chaff in this year's crop of rock-and-roll tomes

  December 23, 1999