• September 19, 2005
• At Home, Comedy, Crime, Drama

I have spent my entire life thinking of The Sting as the movie where Robert Redford and Paul Newman play cards for two hours. It never really occurred to...

• September 5, 2005
• At Home, Crime, Documentary

On December 9, 2001 in a rich, white neighborhood of Durham, North Carolina, famous author Michael Peterson called 911 in hysterics to report that his wife Kathleen Peterson had...

• April 4, 2005
• At Home, Crime, Thriller

Out of all of the women characters in Sin City, I perhaps related to Jessica Alba’s Nancy Callahan the most. Maybe it is because I’m not an assassin hooker....

• October 6, 2004
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Crime

With an arguably weak script on which to base its antics, Taxi is constantly struggling to create comic moments but the attempts repeatedly fizzle out. The story follows perpetual...

• August 19, 2004
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery

You’d think that if Robert Redford produced a movie and Al Pacino starred in it, the final product would be pretty amazing. People I Know is an intriguing story,...

• April 17, 2004
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Romance

A Soldier’s Girl is based on a tragic true story, about the affair between a soldier, Pvt. Barry Winchell, falling for a “local girl” who is a transgender nightclub singer...

• February 12, 2004
• Action, At Home, Crime, Drama

I love guy movies. I love onscreen explosions. What’s not to love about Backdraft? I spent the entire movie working on that question, and finally realized that it has...

• December 25, 2003
• At Home, Crime, Family

Q: What’s the fastest way to suck all the humor and dignity out of two funny and talented actors? A: Make them the half-witted parents of TWELVE obnoxious children....

• July 18, 2003
• Action, At Home, Comedy, Crime

Hot women in skimpy clothes? Profanity? More explosions? More gun fights? Lots and lots and lots of initially cool but quickly tiresome and unnecessary slo-mo shots? Then, my friend,...

• February 23, 2003
• At Home, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller

About 20 minutes into The Life of David Gale, I was so simultaneously bored and restless that my mind wandered. I found myself playing mental word games for fun,...

• February 20, 2003
• At Home, Comedy, Crime, Drama

I’m not really sure how to approach a review of Adaptation, only because even now—some five and a half days after seeing it—I’m still not sure what I thought....

• December 26, 2002
• At Home, Comedy, Crime

Catch Me tells the so-unbelievable-it-can-only-be-true story of Frank Abagnale, Jr. (the eternally youthful Leonardo DiCaprio) a con man of the highest caliber, who happened to pull his greatest scams...