Katharine Hepburn

James McMurtry

Final step

Ginger Rogers, 1911-1995

Joe Bob Briggs

Drive-In Movie Critic of Grapevine, TX

Sea of sap

21st Century Road Gang smothers On Golden Pond in sweetness

They shoot movies, don't they?

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

Events for the week

Sydney Pollack does -- and his reliable, sturdy movies earn him this year's Great Director Award

Gross out

Fat Men in Skirts exposes a few disgusting shortcomings

A fine mess

Bernardo Bertolucci's Stealing Beauty flounders with style

Women trouble

11th Street paves a bumpy, bright road for Desdemona

Secondhand Rose

Streisand's fun-house Mirror warps her strengths into rare weaknesses

Events for the week

Streisand's fun-house Mirror warps her strengths into rare weaknesses

The lonely guy

Dalton James is one of Dallas' most amazing theatrical talents. But life still hurts sometimes.

Bad medicine

Critical Care tries to do for medicine what Network did for TV, and fails

Not just black and white

Pegasus does its old-movie spoof in Another Murder: Another Show!

Beach bums

With a tired plot and cutout characters, Six Days, Seven Nights seems longer

As bad as it gets

Peter Berg's sour Very Bad Things earns a one-way ticket to filmic Palookaville

Screen dreams

Peter Berg's sour Very Bad Things earns a one-way ticket to filmic Palookaville

Neo-screwball strikes out

Failing to follow its own best advice, Forces of Nature plays by all the rules

Bolton No More in ’04

And other New Year’s resolutions we’re not sticking with

Australia

Like a musical minus the music, or every other melodrama you've ever seen

House of Stiles

MTV’s latest film dances its way toward a slammin’ demographic

Small-Town Celebrity

Big Star Burgers is perfectly cast in a tasty leading role

Bum Deal

Mandy Moore's going to be around for a while--but that doesn't mean you should see her movies

Bette-ography

Mandy Moore's going to be around for a while--but that doesn't mean you should see her movies

Our top DVD picks for the week of May 29

Mandy Moore's going to be around for a while--but that doesn't mean you should see her movies

Diggin' the Earth

Mandy Moore's going to be around for a while--but that doesn't mean you should see her movies

Who'd Guess?

Can it be that Bernie and Ashton are better than Spencer and Sidney?

Crash and Yearn

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

Howard Hughes gets what he wants, in this case a fun and loving biopic

20 Bands 7 Days

For one week, Sarah Hepola saw every band that invited her. God help her.

Royal Screw-ups

Theatre Britain and Stage West offer English lessons in silly farce and fierce drama

Hamer Time

This unconventional comedic drama from Norway might be just the ticket

This Week's Day-By-Day Picks

This unconventional comedic drama from Norway might be just the ticket

The Best Friend

A. Scott Berg wants Kate Remembered

Long Live the Poison Pen

There are two kinds of critics: those who criticize, and those who don't

Eye of the Beholder

Sandra Bullock is transformed into a pageant beauty in the suitably amiable Miss Congeniality

Private Defective

Alan Rudolph's Trixie is happily stuck between a rock and the deep blue sea

Demi's monde

Moore gives us less in this split-psyche romance from Alain Berliner

The Real Ugly Truth? Katherine Heigl Needs a New Role.

Moore gives us less in this split-psyche romance from Alain Berliner

Why are Mexico’s national soccer players such poor losers?

Moore gives us less in this split-psyche romance from Alain Berliner

Lyric Stage Finds a Brash, Beautiful Funny Girl in Newcomer Kristin Dausch

Moore gives us less in this split-psyche romance from Alain Berliner

The Coco Chanel Hagiography is so Last Season

Moore gives us less in this split-psyche romance from Alain Berliner