- 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.
- May 8, 2000
- In Brief:
"Frequency" and "The Big Kahuna"
- November 25, 2002
- Foreign Affairs
The Quiet American is equal parts romantic thriller and moving meditation on the human toll of geopolitical idealism; in Almodóvar's latest, it's the men who fall for the strong, silent types.
- July 8, 2002
- Back in Black
Men in Black II
Minority Report Plus Notorious C.H.O. and Lilo & Stitch
- April 12, 1999
- Charmed, for Sure
Erick Zonca's appealing "Dreamlife of Angels" is an intimate and sophisticated tale of friendship between two utterly different women.
- November 6, 2000
- Witch Craft
Book of Shadows: Blair Witch 2
Directed by Joe Berlinger.
A Time for Drunken Horses
Directed by Bahman Ghobadi.
George Washington
Written and directed by David Gordon Green.
Sound and Fury
Documentary directed by Josh Aronson.
- February 2, 2004
- Colder Mountain
Crippled and frostbitten, Joe Simpson was left to die in the Peruvian Andes. How he survived is the harrowing subject of Touching the Void.
- May 17, 2004
- War of the Poses
Homer’s Greeks battle—vainly and in vain—for epic grandeur in the $175 million Troy. Strayed nails the dreadful reality of WWII.
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