With Spider, David Cronenberg once again demonstrates his deep affinity for decay—but gets ensnared in all the shadows; The Life of David Gale is a manifesto gone amok.

Restaurant riffs on passover seders, semi-traditional and otherwise.

Hot on the heels of "The Sopranos" comes "Analyze This," in which De Niro loses the safety net and swan-dives into parody as a mobster taking the talking cure.

In the Mood for Love, The Million Dollar Hotel

The Curse of the Jade Scorpion
Captain Corelli's Mandolin
In Brief: Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back

Ben Younger's knockout debut, "Boiler Room," is charged with the adrenaline rush of young brokers making the sell, the great American con.

In The Secret Lives of Dentists, Campbell Scott plays a cuckolded dentist unable to summon the courage to confront his wife.

In "Small Time Crooks," Woody Allen's film about a petit larcenist who strikes it rich, the elusive pleasures are in the details, not the caricatures.

Cameron Crowe's delicate coming-of-age film about a young writer on the road with an early-seventies rock band is sentimental without ever becoming sappy.