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Peter Rainer

April 12, 1999 | Movie Review
Charmed, for Sure

Erick Zonca's appealing "Dreamlife of Angels" is an intimate and sophisticated tale of friendship between two utterly different women.

November 6, 2000 | Movie Review
Witch Craft

Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Directed by Joe Berlinger.
A Time for Drunken Horses
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi.
George Washington
Written and directed by David Gordon Green.
Sound and Fury
Documentary directed by Josh Aronson.

February 2, 2004 | Movie Review
Colder Mountain

Crippled and frostbitten, Joe Simpson was left to die in the Peruvian Andes. How he survived is the harrowing subject of Touching the Void.

May 17, 2004 | Movie Review
War of the Poses

Homer’s Greeks battle—vainly and in vain—for epic grandeur in the $175 million Troy. Strayed nails the dreadful reality of WWII.

October 25, 1999 | Movie Review
Pulling Punches

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

November 11, 2002 | Movie Review
Sex in the Suburbs

In Far From Heaven, Todd Haynes dissects the frozen moral climate of postwar Middle America; in 8 Mile, Eminem's performance is impressive and, believe it or not, sensitive.

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

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