200 Cigarettes
February 26, 1999 | Risa Bramon Garcia's 200 Cigarettes is a slight but likable comedy about the not-so-quiet desperation of determined fun-seekers on New Year's Eve 1981 in New York's East…
Two Weeks Notice
December 20, 2002 | This week’s Truth in Advertising award goes to Two Weeks Notice, an exceptionally engaging romantic comedy that is being sold with an attractive rendering of Sandra Bullock…
The Four Feathers
September 20, 2002 | If you’re the type of moviegoer who’s always complaining that “they sure don’t make them like they used to,” take a gander at The Four Feathers…
Eight Legged Freaks
July 17, 2002 | In the pantheon of tongue-in-cheeky scary movies, Ellroy Elkayem's Eight-Legged Freaks ranks somewhere between Tremors (1990), the crackpot classic about giant worms with only one degree…
8 Mile
July 17, 2002 | In the pantheon of tongue-in-cheeky scary movies, Ellroy Elkayem's Eight-Legged Freaks ranks somewhere between Tremors (1990), the crackpot classic about giant worms with only one degree…
8mm
February 26, 1999 | Late in Joel Schumacher's 8mm, the story of an accidental tourist in the lower circles of hell, there is a moment when private eye Tom Welles (Nicolas…
Nine Queens
April 19, 2002 | Fabian Bielinsky's Nine Queens is a fleet and frisky movie about con artists – and, by extension, con artistry – so I don't want to tell…
Almost Famous
September 13, 2000 | Almost Famous is the kind of idiosyncratic and deeply personal project that usually gets green-lit by a major studio only after a filmmaker scores with a…
American Movie
November 5, 1999 | At a time when the freakish success of The Blair Witch Project may encourage even more would-be filmmakers to borrow funding from friends and max out…
Anger Management
April 11, 2003 | The mere sight of Adam Sandler and Jack Nicholson on the same movie poster is enough to make most people smile. So a full-length feature pairing…