Richard Gere

Robert Altman: "Hollywood Will Want Me When I Die."

Quick -- run away

Speak now, or forever wish you hadn't wasted eight bucks

Big sleep

Kiss of Death fires blanks in an increasingly tough crime saga competition

The sword and the stoned

First Knight turns the Arthurian legends into a Hollywood botch job

Heaven's gait

Loopy pacing and awful performances doom the hell-bound Heaven's Prisoners

Animal farm

Satire is both sweet and tart on Cold Comfort Farm

GROUND ZERO

Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud

Events for the week

Atomic Cafe filmmaker Jayne Loader has won raves for her CD-ROM Public Shelter, but calls the 'new medium' a dud

Peking soap opera

Red Corner aspires to political bravado, but can't avoid bombast and cliche

Top guns

The Jackal offers the funof watching big-ticket actors trying to spin their images

Holiday Highlights

The Jackal offers the funof watching big-ticket actors trying to spin their images

Waiting was the hardest part

Terrence Malick emerges after 20 years with his complex but compelling The Thin Red Line

Round midnight

Sure, Mighty Peking Man stinks, but that's half the fun

Various Artists

Chicago: Music from the Miramax Motion Picture (Sony)

Youthful Indiscretions

How do bartenders spot underage drinkers?

The Wedding Singer Stage Performance Falls Way Short of the Flick

Also: Bent holds up poorly over time

Super, Thanks for Asking

Also: Bent holds up poorly over time

Todd Haynes Offers His Bob Dylan

He knows it might not be your Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan: Like a Complete Unknown

I'm Not There and the changing face of Bob Dylan on film

Mix-tape Biopic Captures Bob Dylan's Spirit

The elusive Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

The Boys Are Back

The elusive Dylan, masterfully considered, in I'm Not There

So Close, and Yet So Far

The intimate pleasures and necessary detachments of Toronto 2007

Vince Charming

Vaughn ensures an amicable Break-Up with Aniston

The Thrill of the Hunt

Two hardened journalists and a newbie go after a war criminal in this dark and dirty winner

The Sands of Time

Get your grains at the Crow

BookScam

In The Hoax, a lying president (Nixon) begets a lying author (Richard Gere). Good thing that wouldn't happen today.

Same Old Story

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Camel Light

Sequels, prequels and threequels headline Hollywood 2007

Spell It Out

The film version of Bee Season overplays its hand

Pretty Woman

The strange tale of a man and his Chinese bride that has Dallas talking

Chin Up

Bruce Campbell on making love and screaming brains

Everyone's Watching

Oscar visits Big D

The Soft-Shoe Soft Sell

Gere and J. Lo Dance, and there's nothing dirty about it

Far From Happy

The year's best featured plenty of Sad White Guys

Tango and Cash

Chicago dances its way through the origins of the celebrity crook

Flat Lyne

Yo, Adrian--Unfaithful is nearly unwatchable

Moth-Eaten

In this tricked-up ghost story, the truth is way out there

Dying of Laughter

Sweet November is bad all year long

The Sundance Kidder

With his own movie in tow, Dallas' indie-film guru goes to Robert Redford's festival, falls in love with the First-Timer, and embraces the hype

The Dr. Is In, Out, In, Out...

Robert Altman nails Dallas' shallow society to a T

"Look! I Made This!"

Robert Altman wants your attention, if not your affection

Magnificent obsession

The films of Great Director honoree Paul Schrader mix art-house intelligence with B-movie grit

An Ode to Jesse Holley

It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been ... has it? ​In a word: Seeyalater. I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys' roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don't I believe in feel-g ... More >>

Chappy's Last Mission

It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been ... has it? ​In a word: Seeyalater. I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys' roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don't I believe in feel-g ... More >>

So Many Stars, So Many Storylines: It's a Valentine's Day Massacre!

It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been ... has it? ​In a word: Seeyalater. I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys' roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don't I believe in feel-g ... More >>

Brooklyn's Finest

It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been ... has it? ​In a word: Seeyalater. I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys' roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don't I believe in feel-g ... More >>

Back on the Big Screen

It's been real. It's been fun. But it hasn't been ... has it? ​In a word: Seeyalater. I get lots of emails and/or phone calls urging me to root for reality-show winner Jesse Holley to make the Dallas Cowboys' roster. In the name of Rudy, Rocky and Vince Paple, don't I believe in feel-g ... More >>