"Me, Myself
& Irene"
Jim Carrey's manic acting skills shine in the latest from Ÿber-booger
geniuses Peter and Bobby Farrelly.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(06/23/00)
"Chicken Run"
The first feature from the creators of "Wallace and Gromit" is a plucking good time.
By Michael Sragow
(06/21/00)
"Gone in 60 Seconds"
In the new Jerry Bruckheimer movie, see cars go fast and get banged up!
By Charles Taylor
(06/09/00)
"Big Momma's House"
Martin Lawrence, no Eddie Murphy, takes a reheated cross-dressing shtick and turns it into something to elate your inner fourth-grader.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(06/02/00)
"Love's Labour's Lost"
His new musical version of "Love's Labour's Lost" is flawed, but Kenneth Branagh remains our greatest living interpreter of Shakespeare.
By Charles Taylor
(06/09/00)
"Hamlet"
There's something rotten in Denmark, but not in this darkly glittering
update of Shakespeare's great tragedy.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(05/12/00)
"Battlefield Earth"
L. Ron Hubbard's pulp sci-fi classic comes incomprehensibly to the screen
starring Scientologist John Travolta.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(05/12/00)
"Gladiator"
We who are about to be bored salute you!
By Andrew O'Hehir
(05/05/00)
"Up at the Villa"
The new film from the folks who gave us "Angels and Insects" is strictly "Minor Piece Theatre."
By Michael Sragow
(05/05/00)
"U-571"
Damn the torpedoes! Damn the formulaic modern American action movie!
By Charles Taylor
(04/21/00)
"American
Psycho"
Mary Harron's clinically ironic take on the infamous Bret Easton Ellis
novel tastefully avoids showing murderous violence -- and making a point.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(04/14/00)
"Set Me
Free"
A 13-year-old girl falls in love with a glamorous fictional prostitute in
this elegiac coming-of-age story.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(04/28/200)
"Where the Heart
Is"
With an Oprah-book plot and Hallmark sentimentality, the trailer-park
melodrama never lets you forget that Natalie Portman and Ashley Judd are
hot babes with perfect complexions.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(04/28/2000)
"The Revenge of
the Sex Pistols"
Blood, chaos, hatred and fear: The lads who changed rock history tell the
story their way.
By Bill Wyman
(04/28/2000)
"Gossip"
It doesn't really matter who sleeps with whom in this sub-"Melrose Place"
college fantasy, just that both actors will end up shirtless.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(04/21/2000)
"The Virgin
Suicides"
Sofia Coppola finds the bare-bones poetry of Jeffrey Eugenides' novel.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(04/21/2000)
"28 Days"
Not even court-ordered rehab could save this stumbling drunk of a picture.
By Charles Taylor
(04/18/2000)
"Keeping
the Faith"
Edward Norton's dopey directorial debut gives interfaith romance a bad name.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(04/18/2000)
"Where the Money
Is"
Credit aging bank robber Paul Newman for almost saving this merely
diverting little heist comedy.
By Charles Taylor
(04/14/00)
"Return to
Me"
David Duchovny and Minnie Driver star in a movie that almost seems like a
godsend in this age of
romantic-comedy schmaltz.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(04/07/00)
"Joe Gould's
Secret"
Stanley Tucci and Ian Holm face off as a New Yorker writer and the loopy
Greenwich Village street character he turned into a celebrity -- with
devastating results.
By Charles Taylor
(04/07/00)
"Ready
to Rumble"
Is it a feature-length commercial for World Championship Wrestling or a
juvenile work of deviant genius -- or both?
By Andrew O'Hehir
(04/07/00)
"High Fidelity"
Love, rock 'n' roll, lists and record-store geeks come together swimmingly in the romantic filmed version of the Nick Hornby novel.
By Stephanie Zacharek
(03/31/00)
"The Skulls"
Evil lurks in the hallowed halls of higher education; so does lousy dialogue.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(03/31/00)
"Erin Brockovich"
In this sexy, exciting legal drama, Steven Soderbergh delivers his most
straightforward movie -- and Julia Roberts her best performance.
By Charles Taylor
(03/17/00)
"Romeo
Must Die"
In this canny and ingeniously crafted action thriller, Jet Li glows with a
quiet, unquantifiable something -- and he kicks butt.
By Andrew O'Hehir
(03/24/00)
"Mission to Mars"
In space, no one can hear you jeer.
By Andrew O'Hehir (03/10/00)
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