October 3, 2003 |  Like some piercingly melancholy, way-past-midnight riff of jazz piano, Mystic River can chill you to the bone even while it breaks your heart. Its setting is…

August 6, 1999 | Even if the Fantastic Four or the X-Men maintained a farm system, some crime fighters still wouldn’t make the grade as Class A minor-leaguers. But would that keep…

JULY 20, 1998 | You probably haven't heard a lot about writer-director Noah Baumbach yet. Trust me, you will. Mr. Jealousy is only his second feature -- after his well-received debut,…

February 8, 1991 | Walter and India Bridge are among the rigorously proper residents of the extremely proper community of Kansas City. The times may be changing -- the complacent 1930s are…

May 18, 2001 | Baz Luhrmann's incessantly sensational Moulin Rouge is a surreal, supercharged whirligig of artifice and feeling, irony and intensity. Set in an exuberantly decadent dreamworld of 1900…

September 25, 1998 | Denis Leary, the acerbic standup comic and motor-oil pitchman with the in-your-face attitude, firmly establishes himself  as a full-fledged film actor in Monument Ave., a sharply observed…

June 15, 2001 | The phrase “rolling in the aisles” used to strike me as the dopiest kind of empty hyperbole. But then, on a fateful afternoon more than 25 years…

May 24, 2000 | Buffer, bolder, and readier than ever to kick ass, cheat death and do prodigious derring-do, the new-and-improved Tom Cruise cuts the mustard as a high-testosterone action figure…

May 23, 1996 | Get a load of this: Tom Cruise thinks fast, and acts faster, to get out of harm's way in a Prague restaurant. With the aid of some…

April 29, 1989 | Miracle Mile is an audacious doomsday thriller with a 20-megaton impact. Deceptively simple and relentlessly gripping, it represents American independent moviemaking at its most exciting and accessible…