The Luzhin Defence, The Center of the World, With a Friend Like Harry . . .

Martin Scorsese regains his form with the Howard Hughes biopic– Leo DiCaprio vehicle The Aviator.

Spike Lee's "Bamboozled" is an irony-deficient riff on "Network" in which an appallingly racist minstrel show on TV becomes a ratings juggernaut.

A waterlogged remake of the 1954 sci-fi classic finds "Godzilla" stomping through Manhattan instead of Tokyo. Come back, Raymond Burr -- all is forgiven!

'Adaptation', the new Spike Jonze and Charlie Kaufman collaboration, picks apart the myth that nothing good ever domes out of Hollywood these days.

Director Ron Howard -- who grew up on television before our eyes -- exacts a certain revenge with "EDtv" (we're not in Mayberry anymore).

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.

Savage yet exhilarating, Spielberg's "Saving Private Ryan" shows the great and minor acts of bravery that define valor against the horrific tapestry of war.

"Croupier" gambles on actor Clive Owen -- and wins.

The Scandinavian single men under observation in Kitchen Stories make classic comic fodder; The Code is a French thriller that asks, Why kill?