June 29, 2001 | The opening credit -- "An Amblin/Stanley Kubrick Production" -- appears startlingly contradictory, almost oxymoronic. After all, Amblin means Steven Spielberg, since it's his production company, and Spielberg…

February 20, 2004 |  Imagine a cross between Rocky and Erin Brockovich – yes, I know that's difficult, but try anyway – and you may be ready to go the…

July 25, 1997 | Fairly early in Air Force One, the turbo-charged thriller about a terrorist plot to skyjack the title airplane, there's a scene that vividly illustrates why Harrison Ford…

May 17, 2002 | You may be happy to know - and, then again, you may be disappointed to see -- that Paul and Chris Weitz, the sibling filmmakers who…

February 23, 2001 | Action, attitude, Elvis Presley iconography and a hunka-hunka blazing guns figure prominently in 3000 Miles to Graceland, the kind of boisterously flashy and trashy crime drama…

December 19, 2002  |  Early in 25th Hour , Spike Lee's furiously melancholy drama about life and dread in post-9/11 New York City, there's a scene so brilliantly sustained, so…

March 9, 2001 | It's all too easy for a satirist to miss the mark -- and shoot himself in the foot -- while aiming at temptingly easy targets. Writer-director…

April 23, 2004 |  Yes, the child-trapped-in-adult-body gimmick is shamelessly recycled from Big and dozens of other movies. And, yes again, the predictable plot is a standard-issue morality play about…

October 26, 2001 | F. Murray Abraham goes way over the top with a performance that could be labeled "Honey Glazed" and sold by the pound. Not to be outdone,…

October 19, 2001 | Sherlock Holmes defeated him in two different films – A Study in Terror (1965) and Murder By Decree (1979) – and no less a luminary than H.G.…