Joshua Rothkopf
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Undiscovered Country
The typical complaint goes something like this: Why open a huge, gleaming multiplex if three of those screens are… more
vol. 27, iss. 24
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9/11 at the Movies
Since Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, I have been expressing a mixture of hope and doubt concerning the subject of… more
vol. 27, iss. 22
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Smash and Grab
Ang Lee’s The Hulk is the kind of rambling, overstuffed psychodrama that only a true artist could create. Reportedly,… more
vol. 27, iss. 18
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Kiss the Girls, Make Them Cry
You don’t have to be an embedded journalist to know we’re missing much of the good stuff on live… more
vol. 27, iss. 12
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Into the Woods
When people complain about the movies being too fake or showy or otherwise lacking in depth, I have to… more
vol. 27, iss. 09
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Headphone Mind
Morvern Callar gets at you through your eardrums. Its gifted young director, Lynne Ramsay, has described her second feature… more
vol. 27, iss. 07
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Truth and Consequences
Spike Lee’s latest—his 20th feature including TV work—is at long last the raging masterpiece many have suspected him capable… more
vol. 27, iss. 06
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The Subject Was Orchids
Let a great adenoidal whine spread out across the land: A new comic hero for the neurotic has arrived,… more
vol. 27, iss. 02
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As the World Yearns
When a movie gets it all impeccably, heartbreakingly right, as does Todd Haynes’ stunning Far from Heaven, some critics… more
vol. 27, iss. 01
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The Big Picture
So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so much… more
vol. 26, iss. 26
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Arms and the Cameraman
Readers of these pages need no introduction to Michael Moore, nor will they require any acrobatics on my part… more
vol. 26, iss. 25
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I See Green People
Signs is about Earth’s infestation by claw-fingered aliens, but its scenes of a rural Pennsylvanian household stunned in front… more
vol. 26, iss. 20
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Love Is a Battlefield
With its deep bows to Monument Valley and other distant frontiers, its choked-off military men struggling with codes of… more
vol. 26, iss. 17
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Dive in, the Pool’s Empty
Ah, to be young, wild and Californian: Dogtown and Z-Boys, an affectionate, free-spirited history of the reinvention of skateboarding… more
vol. 26, iss. 15
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Twice Upon a Time
Tsai Ming-liang, the Taiwanese director of a decade’s worth of urban hilarity—all of it bone-dry and gorgeous in structure,… more
vol. 26, iss. 10
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Technical Foul
Life, for all its mysteries and riches, was somehow found lacking. Here, then, is a remake of Rollerball, MGM… more
vol. 26, iss. 08
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Heroes and Survivors
Consider the list of unlucky opponents to face the torrent of words and blows that was Cassius Clay, later,… more
vol. 26, iss. 06
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Royals, Lords, Jesters
High drama, long-winded sagas, maybe even a little violence: Soon many of us will be returning home to family.… more
vol. 26, iss. 03
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HEAD FOR THE HILLS
In dreams, as the song goes, David Lynch walks and talks with you. He’s by now our premiere hypnotist—a… more
vol. 25, iss. 25
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Monkey See, Monkey Shoot
Planet of the Apes Directed by Tim Burton First, a confession: I've got this thing for primates. Put one… more
vol. 25, iss. 20
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Partial Recall
Memento Written and directed by Christopher Nolan Returning to the scene of your crime is, generally speaking, not the… more
vol. 25, iss. 13
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