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Peter Rainer

October 25, 1999 | Movie Review
Pulling Punches

"Fight Club" serves up frustrated Everymen under extreme duress.

March 12, 2001 | Movie Review
Pistol Whipped

The Mexican, Series 7

March 22, 1999 | Movie Review
Kubrick: A Fierce Comic Anger

Recalling Stanley Kubrick's furious entertainments.

April 5, 1999 | Movie Review
"Among Giants"
July 28, 2003 | Movie Review
Treacle Treat

Camp is a crowd-pleasing musical that overflows with exuberance, but you’ll want to check your cliché-detector at the door. Also reviewed: Dirty Pretty Things and Bad Boys II

October 15, 2001 | Movie Review
Police State

Training Day
La Ciénaga
Serendipity

August 4, 2003 | Movie Review
Horse Play

Gary Ross reworks the story of Seabiscuit, the champion racehorse of the Depression era, into a redemption myth.

August 16, 2004 | Movie Review
Cheat Drink Man Woman

Two couples struggle through a bitter cycle of anger, adultery, revenge, and friendship in We Don’t Live Here Anymore.

June 26, 2000 | Movie Review
Black and Blue

Samuel L. Jackson's new but unimproved Shaft is all hell-bent vigilante and no chill time.

May 31, 1999 | Movie Review
Objects of Desire

In "The Love Letter" an anonymous missive sends a bucolic Massachusetts hamlet reeling from an epidemic of summer lust and misplaced passion.

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