Dumb and Dumberer: When Harry Met Lloyd
June 13, 2003 | When is a sequel not a sequel? When it's a "prequel," a critic-speak term coined to describe the likes of Butch and Sundance: The Early Days…
Die Hard
July 15, 1988 | Die Hard is a hard-driving, pulse-pounding, high-velocity action-thriller, the wild rollercoaster ride we've been waiting for all summer. Better still, beyond the blood and thunder there is…
Die Hard 2
July 4, 1990 | At the end of the slam-bang thrill-o-rama that is Die Hard 2, our reluctant hero, John McClane (Bruce Willis), has a tearfully happy reunion with his…
Dodgeball
June 18, 2004 | With the arrival of his first feature, DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story, writer-director Rawson Marshall Thurber must plead guilty to moviemaking while under the influence of…
Dogma
October 4, 1999 | Right at the start of Dogma, a movie that already has managed to outrage thousands of people who likely will never bother to see it, writer-director…
Dungeons & Dragons
December 8, 2000 | In the rarified genre of movies based on board games, Dungeons and Dragons distinguishes itself by being much funnier than Clue (1985), a nominal comedy. Unfortunately,…
Die Another Day
November 22, 2002 | Wonder why it's taken so long -- three years since The World is Not Enough -- for James Bond to renew his license to kill? Simple:…
Do The Right Thing
June 30, 1989 | Throbbing to the beat of a rap-music rant, percolating to the heat of long-simmering rage, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is an audacious and exhilarating film,…
Double Dragon
November 4, 1994 | The year is 2007, the city is ''New Angeles,'' the earthquake-ravaged remains of Los Angeles and San Diego, and the news is mostly bad. Much of the…
Don’t Say a Word
September 28, 2001 | Alfred Hitchcock once coined the term “refrigerator logic” – or maybe “ice-box logic,” I don’t remember precisely – to describe a type of after-the-fact nit-picking common among…