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December 8, 2003
Zen Palette

Director Edward Zwick gives The Last Samurai a coat of deep-thought spirituality—and turns Tom Cruise into a haunted swordsman.

July 10, 2000
Braverheart

For Mel Gibson's "Patriot," the politics of revolution is personal; there's greater insight into American-British relations in "ChickenRun."

October 13, 2003
No Pain, No Gain

Clint Eastwood’s Mystic River is suffused with lives ruined by violence; in Kill Bill, Quentin Tarantino looks violence in the eye—and cackles.

January 3, 2005
Small Blunders

In two earnest indies, Sean Penn and John Travolta aim for authenticity—and miss by a mile.

November 3, 2003
Identity Crisis

In The Human Stain—adapted from Philip Roth’s book—Anthony Hopkins plays a professor who has hidden his race from his family and peers.

November 19, 2001
Harry Potter, Inc.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Shallow Hal

January 10, 2005
Man Overboard

The Sea Inside is a classy tearjerker, starring Javier Bardem as a quadriplegic with a case.

May 3, 1999
You Must Be High

In "Pushing Tin", director Mike Newell takes on the less-than-wacky world of air-traffic controllers (with less-than-delirious results).

June 22, 1998
"Opposite" Attracts

Christina Ricci is devastating as a malevolent teen vixen in "The Opposite of Sex."

January 20, 2003
Gangs of Rio

The violence in City of God, about the crime-infested slums outside Rio de Janeiro, piles on numbingly; Adolf Hitler's secretary reflects on an unexamined life.

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