"Zorro" is "Star Wars" with real swords.

Altman "has a real gift for conventional story-telling, and the result of its full exercise is something like unmitigated pleasure."

In Spike Lee's "He Got Game," hoop dreams and the American dream are intertwined in a blistering morality tale about making the big score.

"There's Something About Mary" wraps a romantic comedy in frat-house humor.

A suicidal man driving through the outskirts of Tehran doesn't sound like a promising concept, but "Taste of Cherry" isn't your average road movie.

When Hollywood showed no interest in a preacher who wasn't a demagogue, Robert Duvall said "Amen" -- and made a great film anyway.

Women can't resist the hungry young hero of "Live Flesh," Almodóvar's most enjoyable film since "Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown."