December 6, 2002 | If you enjoyed Analyze This, the hugely successful 1999 comedy about a mood-swinging mobster and his easily frazzled analyst, you may appreciate a second helping of…
December 10, 1997 | After getting the profitable hack work of The Lost World out of his system, Steven Spielberg makes a welcome return to higher ground with Amistad, an…
August 10, 2001 | If the prospect of viewing American Pie 2 causes your spirits to surge with giddy anticipation, be forewarned: No one in this sequel has intimate relations…
April 17, 2001 | If you've got a hankering for a little Wild West action, you would do better to giddyap over to your neighborhood video store rather than take…
September 15, 1999 | By turns savagely funny and sympathetically insightful, American Beauty is a darkly comical tale of toxic discontentment and not-so-quiet desperation. "In less than a year," Lester…
January 19, 2001 | Making a fleeting appearance in theaters before fulfilling its destiny as cable-TV fodder, The Amati Girls is the kind of painfully sincere and stilted drama that…
April 6, 2001 | If you dug out a copy of Hackneyed Movie Plots and turned to the chapter titled "Cat and Mouse Games," you might read something like this:…
December 11, 2000 | For a movie that involves roiling passions, explosive violence and calamitous reversals of fortune -- not to mention lots of strenuous ropin' and ridin' on and…