Subject: Michael Mann

• Lover Men

  April 6, 1995

• Uncharted Waters

  June 22, 1995

• Heart of Darkness: The Dark Knight

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

  July 17, 2008

• Cop Out: Street Kings

  Boys will be boys in this shallow look at dirty police

  April 10, 2008

• The Year In Film

  Judd Apatow's pretty good year and much more

  December 27, 2007

• The Lookout

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in this character-driven theft thriller

  March 29, 2007

• Killer Instinct

  David Fincher's Type-A approach to filmmaking pays off

  March 1, 2007

• A Masterpiece on Canvas

  December 7, 2006

• Downward Mobility

  Brit brat takes the B horror movie where it deserves to go

  August 3, 2006

• Undercover of the Night

  Violent shootouts and dangerous love collide in Mann's visceral Vice

  July 27, 2006

• Collateral Damaged

  When Tom Cruise plays the bad guy, the results aren't good

  August 5, 2004

• Moby for Veep

  John Kerry should hit the decks for his running mate

  March 25, 2004

• Flesh for Fantasy

  Dreamy Red Dragon completes the Hannibal boxed set

  October 3, 2002

• Reel Guilty

  The military thriller High Crimes sets a new low for Ashley Judd

  April 4, 2002

• Sly Foxx

  He steals Ali, but will Hollywood give Jamie Foxx a shot at the title?

  December 27, 2001

• Sting Like a Bee

  Ali lands some solid blows, but sadly it's no knockout

  December 27, 2001

• Good Trouble

  John Frankenheimer influences a new generation of thrill seekers with Reindeer Games

  February 24, 2000

• Tobacco Toad

  Mann elevates The Insider to Oscar-level suspense

  November 4, 1999

• Idol Beat: The Top Five

  That Jamie Foxx, right? A Rennaisance man if there ever was one: the guy's a comedic genius (see In Living Color; tons of flicks), a big-screen leading man, credible action star, R&B champion - plus, as it turns out, he's a natural at mentoring American Idol hopefuls. I wouldn't have figured on him doling out advice to contestants during "Rat Pack Week," yet there he was. (I smell a Foxx-as-Sammy-Davis-Jr. in an as-yet-unconceived Rat Pack biopic, don't you?) Let's consider our Top Five from

  April 29, 2009

• Summer of Salvation

  May 21, 2009

• Mann on the Run

  July 2, 2009

• No Exclamation Point Necessary

  September 17, 2009