- May 31, 2004
- Holy High School!
In Saved!, born-again students cope with surprise pregnancy, homosexuality, a horny pastor, and a Jewish classmate. The results are devilishly funny.
- February 21, 2005
- Hell’s Angeleno
Keanu Reeves makes pleasing metaphysical sport of himself in the noir-comics vehicle Constantine.
- June 28, 2004
- Beyond the Pale
When black people masquerade as white, it’s all about the payback—and a seductive fantasy of transformation.
- September 4, 2000
- Death Is a Dream
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.
- September 25, 2000
- Amateur Hours
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.
- October 9, 2000
- "Remember the Titans"
- September 30, 2002
- Good Grief
Moonlight Mile may be a sentimental, feel-good look at a family in mourning, but Jake Gyllenhaal rises above the clichéd script with a brilliantly creative performance.
- July 20, 1998
- Bittersweet Charity
Restored and uncensored, Fellini's masterpiece, "Nights of Cabiria," finds tremendous power in tracing the emotional life of a streetwalker.
- March 11, 2002
- War Torn
We Were Soldiers
Borstal Boy
Plus 40 Days and 40 Nights
- June 7, 1999
- Treacle-Down Theory
In "Notting Hill," a famous movie star falls in love with the proprietor of a bookstore -- Hollywood-speak for a creature doomed to extinction.

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