August 6, 2003 |  Despite what some film critics might tell you – hell, despite what this film critic often tells you – there's nothing inherently wrong with remakes. Indeed,…

January 4, 1996 | Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley was counseling medical students, not hip young filmmakers, when he noted, not entirely in jest, "There is the greatest practical benefit in making a…

August 12, 2005 | Brimming with rude humor and bad attitude, Four Brothers is a sensationally ’70s-style action flick, a down-and-dirty, rock-the-house revenge drama with the blunt-force impact of those mongrelly…

May 9, 1997 | Don't look now, but the first big blast of the summer movie season has already arrived. Luc Besson's The Fifth Element is a jaw-dropping, mind-blowing pop epic that…

June 10, 1986 |  With movies such as Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club, writer-director John Hughes earned big bucks by pandering to teenage audiences with gross-out gags, pop culture…

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July 16, 1999 | Stanley Kubrick knew what you’d be expecting, and maybe even hoping for, when you bought a ticket to see Eyes Wide Shut. And so, during the opening…

January 11, 1996 | Eye for an Eye is a B-movie that somehow won the lottery and got an A-movie cast and director. It's thoroughly shameless in the way it…

November 28, 2002 | You could walk into any Blockbuster store in America, randomly select any made-for-video action flick that's gathering dust on a back shelf - and chances are…

September 27, 1996 | During the opening minutes of  Extreme Measures,  we find Hugh Grant cast as Dr. Guy Luthan, a British-born doctor hard at work in the emergency room of…