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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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