Meg Ryan's new boxing movie goes down for the count
By Bill Gallo,
February 19, 2004
It is by now clear that Meg Ryan, the bubbling sweetheart of half a dozen romantic comedies, means to bring new substance and seriousness to the... More>>
It is so very nice when a movie completely outstrips the expectations conjured by its trailer, as is the case with The Dreamers. At first blush,... More>>
In the latest documentary from Errol Morris, Robert McNamara considers the lessons of war
By Melissa Levine,
February 12, 2004
At the opening of The Fog of War, the brilliant new documentary from director Errol Morris, we see a composed, sharply groomed, and middle-age... More>>
When it comes to hockey movies, Miracle is as big a winner as its heroes
By Bill Gallo,
February 12, 2004
When the 1980 U.S. Olympic hockey team, consisting of twenty raw college men, beat the seemingly invincible, state-hardened Soviets and went on... More>>
In The Butterfly Effect, Ashton Kutcher comes unstuck in time
By Gregory Weinkauf,
January 22, 2004
There is a recent generation of American men who came of age too late for free love and wanton property-grabbing, and too early for postgrunge... More>>
Funky and grotesque, The Triplets of Belleville will animate your world
By Gregory Weinkauf,
January 22, 2004
Behold a tale of true love (between a boy and a bicycle), of tireless courage (from a bitty grandmother with a club foot), and of a very shocking... More>>
Patty Jenkins and Charlize Theron give birth to a Monster
By Gregory Weinkauf,
January 15, 2004
Not a lot of people know this, but our word "actress" is derived from the Greek phrase strumpetos luckyos, meaning "prostitute who somehow landed... More>>
Lonely women spill all over drinks; bartender turns it into local film
By John Anderson,
January 15, 2004
When aspiring independent filmmaker Justin Routt calls you up asking for help on his movie -- free help, that is -- don't think that just because... More>>
The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale
By Bill Gallo,
January 08, 2004
William H. Macy's plain-vanilla features and hangdog screen demeanor have served him well. Who could resist him as the clueless car dealer who... More>>
This time it's the proper ladies of a small English town who bare all for laughs
By Bill Gallo,
January 08, 2004
This year's British assault on the Yank funnybone is a spirited, hard-trying farce called Calendar Girls, plucked straight from a 1999 news story... More>>
In 2003 women continued to claim and transform the cinema
By Gregory Weinkauf,
January 01, 2004
Unless you've been living under a rock for the last year -- which often seems advantageous -- you may have noticed that there's a pugnacious air... More>>
Cold Mountain sets the new standard for Civil War drama onscreen
By Bill Gallo,
December 25, 2003
Anthony Minghella's magnificent film version of the Civil War epic Cold Mountain has much more going for it than Hollywood grandeur. Beyond its... More>>