August 5, 2005 |  Unassumingly compelling enough to restore your faith in the American indie movement, Junebug is a richly yet subtly detailed dramedy about the ripple effects of a…

April 11, 2001 |  Not content to merely recycle yet another slice of '70s pop-culture kitsch, the makers of Josie and the Pussycats have accomplished nothing short of alchemy. Drawing…

August 1, 1996 | All-singing, all-dancing -- and, yes, all-crawling -- Joe's Apartment is the world's first live-action musical comedy in which singing and dancing cockroaches perform elaborate production numbers. And…

December 20, 1991 | Oliver Stone’s JFK is a brilliantly manipulative melodrama, a masterpiece of historical revisionism writ large and urgent in tabloid style. Whether you should believe a word of…

March 26, 2004 | Diehard fans of Clerks, Dogma and Chasing Amy likely will be disappointed, if not pained, by the sentimental hokum of Jersey Girl, an atypically sappy effort…

May 30, 2003 | The arrival of The Italian Job confirms a suspicion raised by such recent releases as Willard, The In-Laws and Sweet November. Apparently, Hollywood moviemakers have run…

September 24, 2005 | Maggie (Cameron Diaz) is hearty-partying hottie who never stays at any job, or with any man, for very long. She is such a stunner that she rarely…

November 30, 2001  |  Before deciding whether to see The Independent , you should take the following pop quiz: A.) Do you include biker flicks, women-in-prison melodramas and no-budget monster…

November 5, 2004 | The most amazing thing about The Incredibles is the movie's miraculous ability to cloud your mind: For wondrously long stretches of this super-powerful spectacle, you actually…

June 23, 2006 | Just about everything you’ve heard about An Inconvenient Truth is true. It’s a cautionary documentary about global warming, crammed with distressing facts and disturbing figures, presented in…