John Malkovich

Miss Pop Rocks Has the Flu

Control Freaks

Being John Malkovich pulls all the right strings

Burn The Messenger

A little Conscience converts Joan of Arc to near comedy

A Wasted Mind

The Cell delves into a dark, psychotic unconscious and discovers -- a wounded child!

Old News

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

That's a Wrap

And the year ends with a surprise twist: fall movies that are falling flat

Best-Laid Schemes

James Hansen Prince's Splendid Lennie keeps Theatre on the Square's Of Mice and Men from going awry

On the Fast Track

Speed proves there's still life in the old car chase

Air Disaster

Bruckheimer's production shows all his Con-temptible traits

Twin Towers

Travolta and Cage make Face/Off more than skin-deep

Flameout

Travolta and Cage make Face/Off more than skin-deep

Art Imitates Life Imitating Art in Charlie Kaufman's Synecdoche, New York

The World Is a Stage

Angelina Jolie takes on a serial killer and the system in Changeling

Go Ahead, Make Her Day

Intolerable Cruelty: Burn After Reading

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

Justice League: The New Frontier, The Darjeeling Limited, Death at a Funeral, Beowulf: Director's Cut

Remarkably consistent, the Coens make another mockery

The Year In Film

Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

DVDs

Tomorrow's Misery Today

Anchor man?

Playing against type, Will Ferrell can't quite ground this artificially whimsical romantic comedy.

Get Busy Living

The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

Bond in a Bikini

The moans on Dylan's latest aren't exactly of the morbid death-rattle variety

Inside the Lines

Clowes and Zwigoff upend the college comedy, then wreck it

Free for All

The Libertine's protagonist is a boor you can't ignore

The American Way

Andrea Zittel makes art by reinventing her life

Get Inside. It's Summertime!

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

Mind Gamey

Dot the I wants to mess with your head. Yep, it's a mess all right.

Leaning Sideways

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

Terror Firmer

John Malkovich turns Peruvian politics into a big-screen thriller

Mind Games

Clooney toys with the twisted delusions of Chuck Barris

Adapt This

If being Charlie Kaufman is no fun, watching Charlie Kaufman is a real drag

Son Set

Disorganized crime turns boys into men in Knockaround Guys

Heart to Heart

Eastwood plays a detective with a bad ticker looking for the man who murdered his donor

IMAX by Extraterrestrials

Astronauts film life aboard the space station in stunning 3-D

Emma Goes to France

Amélie sends Jane Austen's best-loved heroine on a wild ride

Reel War

The Army and Hollywood join hands to wage virtual, bloodless battles

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

Going for the Jugular

Shadow of the Vampire explores the parasitic impulses common to bloodsuckers and moviemakers

Eager to Please

Intended as irony, the title of Miss Congeniality really says it all

Better in Pairs

Generally a letdown, the year in film offered some well-crafted works that are best viewed as double features

The Bit Player

Vincent D'Onofrio may be the best actor of his generation, but who would notice?

Kicking A

With the world premiere of Fucking A, Infernal Bridegroom Productions may have outgrown its seedy past, but it hasn't forgotten it

Desert Gold

An imaginative Three Kings skewers the combat genre

The Lady Vanishes

Jane Campion's adaptation of Henry James gets everything wrong

Soul Man

Paul Giamatti's wit is the heart of Cold Souls.

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SUMMER GUIDE: (100) Days of Summer Movies

Enjoy the great indoors!

Killer Instincts, Bad Knees

Helen Mirren will cut you in Red.

Friday: Bun B, Lupe Fiasco & Lola Monroe Hail Trae Day

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