Michael Caine

Hollywood Destroys Houston: The Top Five

Hail the Cabbie

The Lawman & the Weasel

Jack Squat

Nicholson's latest falls far short of Five Easy Pieces

Snakes Alive

De Palma and Cage craft a creepy thriller

Singing Praises

Little Voice lights up the soul with humor and pathos

The Prestige

Christian Bale simmers in The Prestige

Fight the Powers

In Goldmember, Mike Myers's mojo is running low

Heart of Darkness: The Dark Knight

Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

No Country for Old Men, South Park: Imaginationland, Sleuth, Five Days

Heath Ledger peers into the void as Christopher Nolan's Batman returns

Sleuth

Better home and garden, but not much else in Kenneth Branagh's Sleuth remake

Don't Believe the Hype

Despite a nonexistent marketing campaign, Cuarón's latest is not to be missed

Welcome to the Grand Illusion

Memento director plumbs the depths of magic and loss

Low-Rent Scoundrels

This Broadway show is a fun piece of fluff

Scattered Dour

The Weather Man's a comedy, but not that kind

Grizzly Man

Redford grows old gracefully in An Unfinished Life

Cursed

Bewitched delivers just what you'd expect: absolutely nothing

Bat Cave-In

The Dark Knight's origin story can't overcome its Baleful side

Excess Hollywood

In the season of sequels and Happy Meal toys, '05 may be a pleasant surprise.

Ugly Duckling

Sandra Bullock fires off another Miss

Here's to Hope

Houston artists light up the Illumination Project 2004

Candy Caine

Jude Law's Alfie puts a pretty face on what was an ugly story

Grumpy Old Men

Lions tames Duvall and Caine with feel-good cornpone

Safe, Cracked

The Italian Job, a remake better than the original, is a steal

American Power

Phillip Noyce takes a timely look at Vietnam through the eyes of Graham Greene

Old Masters and Young Guns

Filmmaking in 2002 wasn't just for the boys

Wooden Nickleby

Douglas McGrath adapts a classic -- almost perfectly

Blood Brothers

Albert and Allen Hughes deliver a sensuous but grisly message From Hell.

Drag King

Actor-comic Eddie Izzard just wants to be loved

The Tired Gun

Or: Why winning an Oscar sometimes means losing sight of a career

Eager to Please

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

Sex for Dummies

Quills director behaves as if he were still making films for a puritanical age

My Life as an Orphan

Lasse Hallström deftly juggles contradictions in the coming-of-age story The Cider House Rules

Into the Line of Fire

Swede Lasse Hallström steps into America's abortion controversy with The Cider House Rules

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Noir-Hop's Zilla Rocca: "I Like Crime, Women & Rapping"

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