Late August Early September
July 7, 1999 | Olivier Assayas' Late August, Early September is an affectingly melancholy drama that addresses us in the soft yet insistent tone of someone sharing intimate secrets. This…
The Last Samurai
December 5, 2003 | Take this as fair warning: If you count yourself among those moviegoers who are predisposed to despise Tom Cruise -- and you know who you are,…
The Last Days Of Disco
May 29, 1998 | The title may conjure images of wild nights, fast times and John Travolta in a bright white suit, but The Last Days of Disco is not another…
The Last Castle
October 19, 2001 | Before he found respectable employment as a film director (The Contender, Deterrence), Rod Lurie made his living as a film critic. So I’m reasonably sure that he would…
Lakeboat
April 13, 2001 | David Mamet already had several produced plays to his credit before he wrote Lakeboat, a freewheeling and often profanely funny collage of monologues and conversations aboard a…
A Knight’s Tale
May 11, 2001 | Imagine a gallant knight of the Middle Ages praising his clever beloved as "my foxy lady." Imagine 14th-century revelers shaking their booties to David Bowie's "Golden…
Kill Bill Vol. 2
April 16, 2004 | The geysers of blood are tapped down to trickles, the swordfights are more even-sided – one-on-one face-offs, not against-all-odds marathons – and the breakneck pace slows enough…
Kids
August 31, 1995 | Kids is a cunning little art-house fraud that has somehow managed to impress a good number of people who should know a great deal better. Ever…
Kansas City
August 16, 1996 | At once brutally cynical and romantically nostalgic, Robert Altman's Kansas City is a moody and bluesy pipe dream of a movie. Altman describes it as his "jazz…
Just Married
January 10, 2003 | There’s nothing wrong with Just Married that a major script rewrite, several fresh plot twists and maybe a couple of tranquilizer darts couldn’t fix. Come to think…