January 18, 1996 | Very early in a marathon battle with undead predators, a clash that takes up most of the second half of From Dusk Till Dawn, a flustered anti-hero…

November 22, 2002 | Be forewarned: The Emperor’s Club takes a defiantly severe if not absolutist view of ethical rigor (good), moral relativism (not so good) and ends-justifies-means compromise (very, very bad).…

May 7, 1999  |  For a movie that has been bumping around the international festival circuit for more than two years, The Empty Mirror seems remarkably fresh and, alas, compellingly…

December 6, 2002 | Much like Extreme Ops, another video-ready movie that won the lottery and got a theatrical release, Empire is while blown up for the big screen. It…

September 15, 2000 |  Duets is a mess, a muddled and meandering long-distance road movie that strives to be engagingly offbeat, but more often comes across as annoyingly off-key. It’s easy…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…