Steven Spielberg

Men in Black Goes Back in Time, but You Still Get to Pay the 2012 Price

Real Steel: Rock 'Em, Sock 'Em, Love 'Em Robots

Mechanistic, spare-parts melodrama is almost human.

Paul: Too Many Sci-Fi References, Not Enough Kristen Wiig.

Mechanistic, spare-parts melodrama is almost human.

The Informant! Gets Cute With Massive Corporate Scandal and Blows the Story

Mechanistic, spare-parts melodrama is almost human.

Echoes and Reverberations: The Photography of Vern Evans

Mechanistic, spare-parts melodrama is almost human.

Cloverfield is a Disaster

Cloverfield is a big, dumb monster movie about nothing

George Lucas' Right-Hand Man

The man who gave us Young Vader returns with a Young Indy boxed set

Auto-Chaotic

As giant robots transform all around us, it's good to know Michael Bay won't ever change

Magic Touch

Fantastical meets political in this stunning for-adults-only fairy tale

Hall of Famer

Legend, yes. But Clint Eastwood's not done yet.

Parton the Interruption

Legend, yes. But Clint Eastwood's not done yet.

Indiana Jones Forever

Harrison Ford whips the Inwood

Tube Boobs

American Dreamz's nation

of idiots lands a little close

to home

No Strings Attached

Wooden acting all around--and not just in Stage West's brittle Puppet Boy

Woot, There It Is

Plus: News Blackout; Sky’s the Limit

In Character

You know the face; the name is Tobolowsky

Raising the Bar

At last, the USA Film Festival is back under the influence

Scot Free

When the boyfriend passes away, Morvern Callar may play

Off the Hizzle

Plus: Double D'oh, Bolly Wanna Poppadum?

In the Ghetto

Polanski returns to Poland, this time as The Pianist

Homies

Home Movie looks inside some eccentric domiciles

Joystick Cinema

It's man vs. machinima when video games become, ahem, movies

Signs of Faith

Mel Gibson has a close encounter with God--or just a mean E.T.

The Romano Empire

The master showman knows how to turn theme-park dining into sensual drama

A Top 10 Odyssey

Looking back (and backward), 2001 had a few worthy mementos

Are You In or Out?

Or, one man's passion for Clooney, killers, kooks and corn

Eyes Half Open

Cameron Crowe takes Jerry Maguire on a dizzy trip through dreamland

War on War Books

Donald Miller has (re)written one of the best books on World War II, but will anyone care?

The Iceman Cometh

Brian Fridge creates space to make images to create space with

Bad Aim

At the Gates, a gripping showdown is bungled by a love triangle

Gunning for Love

Brad and Julia get pistol-whipped by The Mexican

Mud pie

Do yourself a favor and stay home during this Road Trip

Look back in delight

A newly polished Rear Window remains a joy to peer though

By the book

Julie Speed tells her viewers all they need to know about her art -- and her

Theme puke

At Jekyll & Hyde Club, the actors act, the puppets howl, and the food...well, never mind

Blurred vision

What will 1999 be remembered for -- Malkovich's head or Cartman's ass?

Night & Day

August 20 - 26, 1998

Toys for thoughts

G.I. Joe was a wimp; these Small Soldiers are ready to kick butt

Camera ready

In The Truman Show, a hypernormal Jim Carrey dives into the world of TV--and brings us a "message film" that almost works

I, Claudia; or, no going forward

In The Truman Show, a hypernormal Jim Carrey dives into the world of TV--and brings us a "message film" that almost works

Events for the week

In The Truman Show, a hypernormal Jim Carrey dives into the world of TV--and brings us a "message film" that almost works

Echoes from the Holocaust

T3's inspired production offers fresh insight into a timeless tragedy

Cold bore

It's big and loud, but this Peacemaker is still a dud

Going down

Air Force One nosedives into an ocean of ennui

This little light

A small flame glows in Youth Could Know's Tundra

Puberty blues

Writer-director Todd Solondz doesn't play games in Welcome to the Dollhouse

Valley of the dolls

To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar is a plastic pleasure

Auteur, auteur!

Burnt by the Sun and The Glass Shield illustrates the pitfalls of total artistic control

Magnificent obsession

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

Distant thunder

A powerful film from war-torn Macedonia brings faraway bloodshed terrifyingly close