May 5, 2000 | There hasn’t been a full-blown sword-and-sandal spectacle like Gladiator in nearly four decades. So long, in fact, that most moviegoers below a certain age might hear the…

April 9, 2004 |  Risky Business is recycled as frisky glibness in The Girl Next Door , a tickle-and-tease teen-sex comedy about a straight-arrow high school senior who discovers his…

October 24, 1997 | In the brave new world imagined by writer-director Andrew Niccol in Gattaca, a visually arresting but dramatically uninvolving sci-fi trifle, genetically-engineered test-tube babies grow up to become…

December 20, 2002 | One of the precious few movies of 2002 with a legitimate claim to greatness, Martin Scorsese’s long-awaited, much-anticipated Gangs of New York is a blood-and-thunder American epic,…

September 5, 2003 |  Some actors –- especially some comic actors -- are almost too good for their own good when it comes to creating and sustaining an on-screen persona.…

March 9, 2005 | As we emerged from a recent preview screening of Diary of a Mad Black Woman, a colleague turned to me and whispered: “That was awful – but…

November 30, 2001  |  When I first reviewed Diamond Men more than a year ago at the Fort Lauderdale Film Festival, I kinda-sorta damned it with faint praise: This “appealingly low-key…

March 26, 1997 | Maybe moviegoers had it better in the 1940s, way back before Access Hollywood and Entertainment Weekly covered every hiccup of on-the-set turmoil. During that more innocent, less…