- July 12, 1999
- "My Son the Fanatic"
- August 30, 1999
- Taken for Granted
Hugh Grant falls for a Mafia princess, and once again he's in trouble -- not because he's Mickey Blue Eyes but because he's just Hugh Grant.
- July 12, 1999
- Buddy Flicks
Will Smith and Kevin Kline misfire, the Italian stallions in "Summer of Sam" are mock Scorsese, and Adam Sandler's gone all sappy on us.
- April 30, 2001
- No Pawn Intended
The Luzhin Defence, The Center of the World, With a Friend Like Harry . . .
- December 20, 2004
- Emperor of the Air
Martin Scorsese regains his form with the Howard Hughes biopic– Leo DiCaprio vehicle The Aviator.
- October 9, 2000
- Black Comedy
Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" is an irony-deficient riff on "Network" in which an appallingly racist minstrel show on TV becomes a ratings juggernaut.
- June 1, 1998
- Nobody Beats the Liz
A waterlogged remake of the 1954 sci-fi classic finds "Godzilla" stomping through Manhattan instead of Tokyo. Come back, Raymond Burr -- all is forgiven!
- December 9, 2002
- Celluloid Heroes
'Adaptation', the new Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman collaboration, picks apart the myth that nothing good ever domes out of Hollywood these days.
- April 5, 1999
- Tube Boob
Director Ron Howard -- who grew up on television before our eyes -- exacts a certain revenge with "EDtv" (we're not in Mayberry anymore).
- February 3, 2003
- Last Farewell
Unlike Holocaust films that dwell on the horrific spectacle, Frederick Wiseman's portrait of a doomed mother dictating final words to her son is shattering in its simplicity.

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