Jeremy Irons

Events for the week

Bang for your buck

Crimson Tide and Die Hard With a Vengeance provide summer's action fix

A fine mess

Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty flounders with style

Colonialism and its discontents

A heavy-handed allegory nearly sinks Chinese Box

Fatal detraction

Adrian Lyne's Lolita takes the high-minded low road

Spine-tingling

David Cronenberg finds a new place to stick it in eXistenZ

Wild at Heart

Armed with his own brand of logic and a digital camera, David Lynch forges inward

Back in the Fight

At 52, Bruce Willis resurrects a die-hard character

The Empire Strikes Back

At 52, Bruce Willis resurrects a die-hard character

Heath in Heat

Ledger plays it straight as Casanova's lustful lead

War: What Is It Good For?

In Ridley Scott's latest epic, it's good for one really stunning siege

Searching for Shylock

Pacino plays Shakespeare's most contentious character in a stirring Merchant of Venice

Death Visits the Kimbell

The Quest keeps the cash registers ringing

Surface Tension

The Laramie Project breaks through to truth; DTC's The Real Thing comes up short

Future Shock

Simon Wells tinkers with his great-grandpa's Time Machine

Fever dream

The adolescent fantasy Heavenly Creatures is the best film Terry Gilliam never made

Dramatizing the Financial Crisis in Margin Call

The adolescent fantasy Heavenly Creatures is the best film Terry Gilliam never made