Subject: Alexander Payne

• Old News

  Reissues dominated, but an international crop of films yielded a good harvest

  January 2, 2003

• Abortion for Grins

  April 3, 1997

• I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry

  Two straight guys pretend to be gay and turn out to be humanists in Chuck & Larry

  July 19, 2007

• Get Inside. It's Summertime!

  Your guide to the season's hottest films (and the other ones, too)

  June 14, 2007

• Drift Wood

  Evan Rachel Wood and James Woods get lost amid Pretty Persuasion

  September 1, 2005

• Run, Dick, Run

  Sean Penn blames his problems on the president -- so what else is new?

  January 20, 2005

• Fahrenheit 2004

  Remembering the movies that heated up cinemas this year

  December 23, 2004

• From Major to Minor

  Why the best films of 2004 look like indies but aren't

  December 23, 2004

• Leaning Sideways

  In a year when small movies came up big, picking the best was a Payne

  December 23, 2004

• Sour Grapes

  A bitter wine freak makes an adorable hero in Alexander Payne's Sideways

  November 18, 2004

• Weird Al

  Pacino's accent and antics are confusing, rather than enlightening, in People I Know

  May 1, 2003

• The Year of Living Dangerously

  Cinema 2002 counterbalanced a treacherous world

  January 2, 2003

• Schmidt Happens

  Nicholson disappears into a wondrous movie about quiet desperation

  December 19, 2002

• Dyno Lite

  Jurassic Park III has plenty of action, but it is saurly in need of a script

  July 19, 2001

• Beyond Teens

  Savvy Election shows ageless appeal

  May 6, 1999