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Swordfish
It's difficult to synopsize Swordfish, to whittle it down to a digestible nugget. The film (directed by Gone in 60 Seconds' Dominic Sena) is a...
Film Review, Jun. 13, 2001
Evolution
It's baffling that the same comic mind that directed Meatballs, Ghostbusters, and Dave could have coughed up this underachieving and so very un-comic sci-fi spoof...
Film Review, Jun. 8, 2001
The King is Alive
Ultimately, I think, it comes down to aesthetics -- a necessarily vague and academic-sounding term, like “postmodern” or “organic.” Twenty-five-cent words that people like to...
Film Review, Jun. 1, 2001
The Claim
The Claim trafficks in a particular brand of pain: a huge, bone-crushing, mute melancholy, like when you open your mouth in a dream to scream...
Film Review, Jun. 1, 2001
With a Friend Like Harry ...
Tasty psychological thriller from France (by way of Hitchcock).
Film Review, May. 18, 2001
A Knight's Tale
A jousting tournament set to Bachman Turner Overdrive? Product placement on a knight's armor? This so-called medieval tale throws itself wholeheartedly into the art of...
Film Review, May. 11, 2001
Town & Country
Though Town & Country's title refers to its characters' dual residences, it also calls to mind those smarmy style magazines that like to splash across...
Film Review, May. 4, 2001
Hit and Runway
The old writers' adage goes: Write what you know. While that advice might make for a more authentic writing experience, it also means there are...
Film Review, May. 4, 2001
Kingdom Come
For several reasons, it comes as no surprise that Kingdom Come is based on a play (1991's Dearly Departed by David Dean Bottrell and Jessie...
Film Review, Apr. 20, 2001
Crocodile Dundee in Los Angeles
Thirteen years have passed since the last installment of the Crocodile Dundee series, and one has to wonder: Why now? Why, even, at all? Can't...
Film Review, Apr. 20, 2001
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
On a dreary, wind-ravaged island in 1859, an innocent man is killed by two sailors. Drunk silly, they jab a knife in him to determine...
Film Review, Apr. 6, 2001
Someone Like You
After a bull has mated once with a cow, he'll never go back to her, always choosing a new cow over the old. What if...
Film Review, Mar. 30, 2001
Rollercoaster
rollercoaster is like an afterschool special from hell, if hell were Canada and that pesky VD didn't get cleared up by the end of the...
Film Review, Mar. 23, 2001
Amores Perros
Screens Feature, Mar. 16, 2001
Porn Star: The Legend of Ron Jeremy
Screens Feature, Mar. 16, 2001
The Slow Business of Going The Slow Business of Going
Screens Feature, Mar. 16, 2001
Lontano in Fondo Agli Occhi/An Impure Glance
Screens Feature, Mar. 16, 2001
The Trouble With Lou
Screens Feature, Mar. 16, 2001
Get Over It
Hey, get this! It's another broken hearts & bubblegum teen flick! Based on Shakespeare! Featuring a TRL mainstay! Still reading? Then you probably fall into...
Film Review, Mar. 9, 2001
Ratcatcher
Glasgow, mid-Seventies. A garbagemen's strike afflicts the city. While boys muck around in the diseased water, a drowning occurs, and 12-year-old James Gillespie's life changes forever. From the first moments of this bleak Scottish export, the misery of these people is deeply felt. Children come of age long before their time as families are broken by poverty, drink, death, and grime. Yet writer/director Ramsay produces poetry in all this devastation. Ratcatcher is an inner-city tragedy that plays its story simply, sorrowfully, and beautifully.
Film Review, Mar. 2, 2001
Fighting Words
David Gordon Green Slams Indie Filmmakers and Snubs Cannes. Who Is This Kid, Anyway?
Screens Feature, Feb. 23, 2001
Before Night Falls
There are times in Before Night Falls when it physically hurts to watch. Yes, the scenes of violence are terrifying to behold, like when a...
Film Review, Feb. 9, 2001
Head Over Heels
A nagging refrain kept popping in my head as I watched Head Over Heels: M-I-C-K-E-Y M-O-U-S-E. This isn't a Disney film; there aren't any pesky...
Film Review, Feb. 2, 2001
Sugar & Spice
I vaguely recall first seeing that little ditty about sugar and spice and everything nice -- maybe embroidered on a pillow, probably in pink --...
Film Review, Jan. 26, 2001
The Wedding Planner
As the lovelorn wedding planner Maria (Lopez) puts it, those who can't wed, plan. And those who can't produce smart, sexy material in keeping with...
Film Review, Jan. 26, 2001
Future-Kill, Roadie
Hoping to capitalize on the success of Tobe Hooper's 1974 surprise horror hit Texas Chain Saw Massacre, Future-Kill reunited that film's stars Neal and Burns and aimed for a similar creepy / kitschy vein. It failed.Meat Loaf quits his day job to become the world's best roadie. Sound weird? It is.
Reviewed by Screens Review, Jan. 26, 2001
Save the Last Dance
A surprisingly ambitious teen film, Save the Last Dance uses the marriage of hip-hop and ballet as the backdrop for its story of first love...
Film Review, Jan. 12, 2001
State and Main
Scandal!. Intrigue! Sex with Minors! Wanton Acts of Vandalism! It's got all the makings of a juicy movie script, but anyone who's ever picked up...
Film Review, Jan. 12, 2001
Finding Forrester
To watch Gus Van Sant's new Finding Forrester is a lot like realizing your gifted and talented child isn't a kid genius after all. Maybe...
Film Review, Dec. 29, 2000
You Can Count On Me
Just about everybody has a ne'er-do-well in his life. That one person who can't seem to make it right, no matter how hard he tries,...
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2000
What Women Want
What women really want is for their men to act more like women. At least, that's the theory espoused by toothsome Mel Gibson's new “rake-on-the-road-to-redemption”...
Film Review, Dec. 22, 2000
Sound and Fury
The sound of fury can be remarkably quiet. In the new documentary Sound and Fury, which debuted at Sundance, it's the sound of hands flying...
Film Review, Dec. 8, 2000
Two Family House
In Staten Island in 1956, owning a house means owning your freedom. It means not having to live in the home of your wife's parents,...
Film Review, Nov. 24, 2000
The Broken Hearts Club
There's been a fair amount of ballyhoo in the press about how remarkable The Broken Hearts Club is in its unremarkableness. The film, a favorite...
Film Review, Nov. 17, 2000
Venus Beauty Institute
Venus Beauty Institute has Douglas Sirk's soapy prints all over it. The César Award-winning French film follows in the footsteps of Sirk's sudsy “women's pictures”...
Film Review, Nov. 10, 2000
Solomon & Gaenor
Although writer/director Paul Morrisson wrote the original screenplay for his debut feature Solomon & Gaenor, the film feels like a literary adaptation, one of the...
Film Review, Nov. 2, 2000
Live Nude Girls Unite!
The exotic dancers who work at the Lusty Lady Theater in San Francisco are all hot and bothered, but not for that guy behind the...
Film Review, Oct. 27, 2000
Freaky Friday
This minor Disney classic tells the story of one weird day in the lives of Ellen and Annabel Andrews, during which some serious cosmic mojo...
Film Review, Oct. 25, 2000
Urbania
Did you hear the one about the guy who went home with a woman and woke up without a kidney? The award-winning, arthouse film Urbania...
Film Review, Oct. 19, 2000
Barenaked in America
There’s just something about nice guys from Canada: Michael J. Fox, John Candy, Dan Aykroyd, Rick Moranis - Barenaked Ladies? Sure enough, these Top 40...
Film Review, Oct. 19, 2000
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