May 3, 2002 |  Let me throw a great big flopping prejudice right out on the table: Even since I plunked down twelve cents for my first Marvel Comic many…

December 12, 2003 | In an age when fast-and-furious youth-skewing farces are accepted, however grudgingly, as the contemporary equivalents of classical romantic comedies, it's nothing short of delightful to encounter…

November 27, 2002 | If ambition and audacity were enough to sustain a film, Steven Soderbergh’s Solaris would have a legitimate claim to instant-classic status. What we have here is a…

January 19, 2001 | And now for something not completely different: British writer-director Guy Ritchie makes lightning strike twice with Snatch, a sensationally stylish and darkly hilarious crime story that adheres to…

August 18, 2006 |And so, after six months of fanboy-fueled, Internet-inflamed hype, we finally get… well, a pretty damn good rock-the-house, go-for-broke action flick. No kidding: Snakes on a Plane…

November 19, 1999| According to the credits, Tim Burton’s Sleepy Hollow is based on the classic story by Washington Irving. But that seems a mere formality. Burton, the gleefully Goth visionary…

July 29, 2005 | Sky High qualifies as that most serendipitous of moviegoing pleasures, an altogether pleasant surprise. Smartly written and sprightly played, it’s a clever commingling of spoofy superheroics, school-daze high…

August 12, 2005 | A genuinely clever final plot twist and a few modestly creepy scenes are not quite enough to seal the deal for The Skeleton Key, a low-voltage shocker…

November 22, 2001 | Maybe the folks at Paramount Classics should have stuck to their original plan, and opened Edward Burns’ Sidewalks of New York late last summer. Back then, we…