Samuel L. Jackson's new but unimproved Shaft is all hell-bent vigilante and no chill time.

In "The Love Letter" an anonymous missive sends a bucolic Massachusetts hamlet reeling from an epidemic of summer lust and misplaced passion.

Today’s animated features have more style, wit, and soul than most live-action films. But Shrek 2 makes the mistake of going Hollywood.

Quills
Directed by Philip Kaufman; written by Doug Wright; starring Geoffrey Rush, Kate Winslet, Michael Caine, and Joaquin Phoenix.
Unbreakable
Written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan; starring Bruce Willis and Samuel L. Jackson.

Imaginary Heroes is second-rank family drama, except for a standout performance by Sigourney Weaver.

In Saved!, born-again students cope with surprise pregnancy, homosexuality, a horny pastor, and a Jewish classmate. The results are devilishly funny.

Keanu Reeves makes pleasing metaphysical sport of himself in the noir-comics vehicle Constantine.

When black people masquerade as white, it’s all about the payback—and a seductive fantasy of transformation.

Akira Kurosawa's final film, an elegy to a master teacher whose students adore him, is that rarely achieved thing -- a director's haunting valedictory.

In the gooey "Duets," three couples seek salvation in a karaoke bar; for the displaced children of "Into the Arms of Strangers," salvation exacted a higher price.