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Movies 2002:
Reviews of the latest films.
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- Virginia Slim The Hours is a depressive closet case.
Dec. 31, 2002 - Cell Block Tango Chicago reduces our critic to a finger-snappin', toe-tappin' fool.
Dec. 27, 2002 - The Sound and the Saved The Pianist is the best film of 2002.
Dec. 27, 2002 - Great Catch Catch Me If You Can is Spielberg's swingin' autobiography.
Dec. 24, 2002 - Big Queasy Nic Cage's unfortunate Sonny incident.
Dec. 23, 2002 - Nicholas Nickleby Goes to High School
Dec. 23, 2002 - Let It Bleed Gangs of New York is too damned short.
Dec. 20, 2002 - Back Door Blues What Spike Lee's 25th Hour is really about.
Dec. 19, 2002 - Force of Hobbit The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a glorious, visceral mess.
Dec. 18, 2002 - Prime Warp Star Trek: Nemesis is a proud addition to the franchise.
Dec. 13, 2002 - Omaha Lineman Even Jack Nicholson can't save About Schmidt.
Dec. 12, 2002 - J. Lo Cleans Up In Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez stoops to conquer.
Dec. 11, 2002 - Adapt That Don't underestimate Personal Velocity.
Dec. 6, 2002 - Adapt This The self-intoxication of Adaptation.
Dec. 5, 2002 - Personal Space Solaris is Steven Soderbergh's ravishing lament for lost love.
Nov. 27, 2002 - Arrivederci, Coma Almodóvar's Talk to Her is stupendous.
Nov. 22, 2002 - The Spy Who Went Into the Cold He thrilled me, then betrayed me in the end.
Nov. 21, 2002 - Goody-Two-Brooms Sophomore year at Hogwarts.
Nov. 14, 2002 - Mission: Improbable Femme Fatale is an outrageous, nonsensical new treat for thriller gluttons.
Nov. 8, 2002 - Chocolate City 8 Mile is a rap-star Rocky.
Nov. 8, 2002 - Lady's Home Journal Far From Heaven is as stunning as you've heard.
Nov. 7, 2002 - Uncle Scam Roger Dodger is buoyant, even when it's grim; I Spy is disheveled and pointless.
Nov. 4, 2002 - Paris Non-Match The Truth About Charlie is grating; All or Nothing is a relentless dirge; Frida is a brainy, beautiful soap opera.
Nov. 1, 2002 - Video Killed the TV Star Paul Schrader turns Auto Focus into an anti-sex dirge; The Ring adds, "Don't watch that tape!"
Oct. 18, 2002 - Guns 'n' Moses Punch-Drunk Love is a sweet, passive-aggressive romance; Bowling for Columbine transcends Michael Moore's thuggery.
Oct. 11, 2002 - Red Drag Red Dragon is no Manhunter.
Oct. 4, 2002 - Death Takes a Quaalude Moonlight Mile is the worst film of the year; Igby Goes Down is the best.
Sept. 27, 2002 - Spanking Good Time Secretary is a romantic fairy tale of deliverance; Goldie Hawn gives the performance of her life in The Banger Sisters.
Sept. 20, 2002 - Jailhouse Mock Das Experiment is a new, chilling kind of prison drama.
Sept. 13, 2002 - Parent Trap City by the Sea is overwritten but precisely played; My Big Fat Greek Wedding has a rare, audience-seducing weapon.
Sept. 6, 2002 - Blue Plate Special Mostly Martha is a mournful comedy; One Hour Photo is overexposed; and Simone is a lame cyber-satire.
Aug. 23, 2002 - On a Wave and a Prayer Blue Crush is a cool August date movie; Possession is less than nine-tenths of the book.
Aug. 16, 2002 - In Lukewarm Blood Blood Work is an anemic dud; The Good Girl is funny but contemptuous.
Aug. 9, 2002 - The Corn Is Flat Signs is a hucksterish religious parable; Full Frontal is one big muddy mistake.
Aug. 2, 2002 - The Man With the Midas Schlong Austin Powers in Goldmember is an ode to indecent joy; The Kid Stays in the Picture is almost as trippy.
July 26, 2002 - Russian Redressing K-19: The Widowmaker is a grimly heartfelt thriller about systemic rot.
July 19, 2002 - Tommy Guns Road to Perdition is a grandiose, dour Charles Bronson flick; Me Without You is both impish and wise; Tosca is a mess, but one with erotic chemistry.
July 11, 2002 - Suit Case Men in Black II is a landmark Hollywood disgrace; Mr. Deeds is both bad and "bad."
July 2, 2002 - Blame Runner Minority Report is a fabulous, witty totalitarian nightmare.
June 21, 2002 - Four Days of the Cipher The Bourne Identity is a soothingly mundane amnesia thriller; The Fast Runner is anything but a ceremonial ethnographic slog.
June 14, 2002 - Cowboys and Indians Windtalkers is kinetic but fundamentally schlocky; Divine Secrets is a spacey tribute to mystical feminine animism.
June 7, 2002 - Hard Day's Night Insomnia sleepwalks through its plot, yet still delivers a nerve-jangling jolt; plus About a Boy, The Believer, and Bartleby.
May 24, 2002 - A New Hope? Attack of the Clones is better than you've heard.
May 15, 2002 - Eight Legs To Hold You Spider-Man swings along with brio; Hollywood Ending should send Woody Allen running back to drama.
May 3, 2002 - A Farce With Force The Triumph of Love, a midsummer romantic cross-dressing romp; Angelina Jolie sleepwalks through Life or Something Like It; The Salton Sea is drug-noir hooey.
April 26, 2002 - By the Numbers Murder by Numbers does the Nietzschean nihilist killer thing; Frailty likes its ax murderers righteous; The Cat's Meow has no momentum.
April 19, 2002 - Vigilantes Anonymous Changing Lanes is a 12-step thriller; Human Nature is an untamed Being John Malkovich.
April 12, 2002 - Death of an Everysalesman High Crimes goes low; Time Out is a strangely comforting capitalist screed.
April 5, 2002 - Shut Out David Fincher can't get inside Panic Room; Death to Smoochy has a cackling venality.
March 29, 2002 - Lipschtick Lesbians Kissing Jessica Stein plays it a little too straight.
March 22, 2002 - Your Mama Should Know Y Tu Mamá También is breezy, funny, and sexy as hell; Showtime is lazy, artless, and cost $90 million.
March 15, 2002 - Wells Run Dry The Time Machine has no spirit; Esther Kahn is so 1950s.
March 8, 2002 - Before the Boondoggle We Were Soldiers is a bloody, harrowing look at the early days of the Vietnam War.
March 1, 2002 - Under the Rainbow Dragonfly keeps you guessing for a good 20 minutes; Monsoon Wedding has a sparkling chaos; Big BadLove indulges your dissolute-writer fantasy.
Feb. 22, 2002 - Navel Academy Britney Spears' Crossroads is sleazy but plain vanilla; Last Orders is an end-of-life road movie; John Q.'s vigilante becomes a liberal.
Feb. 15, 2002 - Domestic Disturbance An unsettling new documentary explores spousal abuse; Collateral Damage is In the Bedroom for meatheads.
Feb. 8, 2002 - Welcome to the Suburbs Todd Solondz's Storytelling only tells half the story; I Am Sam is manipulative as hell, but sweet.
Jan. 25, 2002 - Werewolves of Paris Brotherhood of the Wolf is a French historical forensics blowout; The Shipping News stays at arm's length; Monster's Ball knows not what it says.
Jan. 18, 2002 - Recommended Capsule reviews of current movies.
Jan. 11, 2002 - Serve the Servants Robert Altman's new masterpiece.
Jan. 11, 2002
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