- February 10, 2003
- Masterpiece Theater
Filmmakers Keith Fulton and Louis Pepe followed iconoclastic director Terry Gilliam to Spain hoping to capture the making of a classic. What they got was so much better.
- October 11, 2004
- Upstate, Uptown, and Beyond
Three festivals bring the world to the city—another brings the city to Woodstock.
- October 18, 2004
- Tea and Sympathy
And abortions. That’s what Vera Drake offers working-class girls in distress, in Mike Leigh’s realist portrait of postwar London.
- October 21, 2002
- Candid Camera
Bob Crane was many things -- small-screen star, sex junkie, autoerotic auteur, murder victim -- but in Auto Focus, he serves mainly to advance director Paul Schrader's moral lesson.
- October 9, 2000
- "Girlfight"
- May 26, 2003
- Science Friction
The Matrix Reloaded scores with its balletic fight sequences, special effects, and sexy stars in fetish-wear. Unfortunately, it’s also loaded down with feeble mythmaking.
- October 19, 1998
- Creepiness
In the brilliant, disturbing 'Happiness,' Todd Solondz gets in close to his characters, only to find misery in search of company, cruelty disdainful of absolution.
- September 24, 2001
- Behind the Curb
Sidewalks of New York
Children Underground
Kon Ichikawa
- October 25, 2004
- The Grape Escape
Running from commitments and failures, two college buddies romp through California, sampling the local wine—and women—in Sideways.
- October 12, 1998
- In Brief: "Lolita"
Adrian Lyne's sober "Lolita" misses Nabokov's joke.

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