The Big One
April 10, 1998 | Imagine a cross between a stand-up comedy routine and an on-the-road documentary, and you're ready for The Big One, Michael Moore's ruthlessly amusing and ruefully insightful…
Disney’s Teacher’s Pet
January 16, 2004 | OK, I'll admit it: When I received the invitation to an advance screening of Disney's Teacher's Pet - a spin-off from a TV cartoon show I'd…
Tape
November 2, 2001 | After drifting through the Day-Glo fantasia of Waking Life, his dream-logic crazy-quilt of metaphysical riffing and digital-video doodling, Richard Linklater drops back to earth to get down…
Sweet November
February 16, 2001 | If you’re going to make a romantic comedy about a sprightly nonconformist who sets her sights on an uptight fellow in desperate need of loosening up, keep…
Sweet and Lowdown
December 10, 1999 | Emmet Ray is the greatest jazz guitarist of the 1930s – something he never tires of telling everyone he meets in Woody Allen’s Sweet and Lowdown –…
Sweet Home Alabama
September 27, 2002 | There's something positively mind-numbing about the relentless predictability of Sweet Home Alabama, an insipid romantic comedy that forces Reese Witherspoon, the agreeably perky star of Legally…
The Sure Thing
March 1, 1985 | The Sure Thing is a nice, sweet-natured, generally unremarkable movie that’s as comfy-cozy and satisfying as a warm bath. The biggest surprise is that it comes…
Stuck On You
December 12, 2003 | Don't look now, but Bobby and Peter Farrelly - the cheery vulgarians who gave us Kingpin, Dumb and Dumber and There's Something About Mary - have…
Starsky & Hutch
March 5, 2004 | Some very clever and extremely talented people were involved in the making of Starsky & Hutch, presumably because they couldn't find anything better to do than…
Spring Forward
December 8, 2000 | At once intriguingly allusive and rigorously precise, in the manner of an exceptionally well-crafted short story, writer-director Tom Gilroy's Spring Forward is a richly yet…