- 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.
- July 27, 1998
- Heroic Proportions
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.
- May 1, 2000
- "Croupier"
"Croupier" gambles on actor Clive Owen -- and wins.
- February 16, 2004
- Science of Bachelors
The Scandinavian single men under observation in Kitchen Stories make classic comic fodder; The Code is a French thriller that asks, Why kill?

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