June 1, 2001  |  Like the early, tell-tale sniffles that portend a nasty cold, the opening minutes of What's the Worst That Can Happen? prime you to expect an unpleasant…

November 19, 1999 | The World is Not Enough may be more than enough to impress most action-movie fans. But for long-time aficionados of the James Bond series, this latest…

December 21, 1988 | Working Girl is a clever, class-conscious fairy tale, directed with clockwork precision and razor-sharp insight by Mike Nichols (The Graduate, Silkwood). Much like the recently released Dirty…

October 17, 2003 | Consumer alert: Don't mistake Wonderland for family-friendly fare about Mad Hatters, Red Queens and White Rabbits. This aggressively grungy drama actually is a bad-time story, a…

December 15, 2000 | Mel Gibson plays for keeps even as he plays for laughs in What Women Want, an unusually satisfying high-concept comedy propelled by extremely potent star power.…

June 17, 1994 | Given Jack Nicholson's predilection for leaping over the top and feasting on the scenery, the restraint of his performance in Mike Nichols' Wolf is pretty close to…

May 4, 2001 | Lots of directors seek inspiration in the classics of Alfred Hitchcock – did somebody say Brian De Palma? – but relatively few actually learn the right lessons…

November 14, 1997 | Arriving in the wake of Jane Campion's  wrong-headed Portrait of a Lady and Agnieszka Holland's heavy-handed Washington Square, Iain Softley's The Wings of the Dove is all…

January 23, 2004 |  There's something at once eerily retro and exuberantly campy about Win a Date With Tad Hamilton! A giggly throwback to teen-skewing romantic comedies of 30 or…

September 21, 1990 | Clint Eastwood rides into White Hunter, Black Heart  at full gallop -- literally -- and pounces on his every line, dominates every scene in which he appears,…