Nick Nolte

A Slightly Dirty Dozen

Schizoid Celluloid

The Waiting Was the Hardest Part

Love, Hot Rod

A faux Rod Stewart revs up the crowd -- and after a few drinks, everyone thinks he's sexy

How Clevelanders Kill Four Hours in Lauderdale

Because you are reading this blog, you are probably not stuck in the airport or trying to kill time before you fly back to Cleveland. But if you or someone you know ever find yourself in that precarious situation, Susan Glaser of the Cleveland Plain Dealer has some horrible advice in this ... More >>

Apocalypse Whatever

Ben Stiller's Hollywood send-up lacks firepower

Epic Bore

The Children of Huang Shi is just another sweeping, extraordinary journey to redemption

Tangled Web

The Spiderwick Chronicles is both a smart children's fantasy and a CGI-dependent weepie

From Here to Eternity

A bar stool at the Mai-Kai makes the perfect time machine

The Fest That Ate South Florida

This year's Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is bigger and... well, bigger

Legs to Spare

This year's Fort Lauderdale International Film Festival is bigger and... well, bigger

Full-Serve Philosophy

A gas station attendant pumps out enlightenment in Peaceful Warrior

Freeloader

You, Me and Dupree overstays its welcome.

Shell Game

Over the Hedge wants you to feel bad about what it's selling, which is everything.

Free at Last

A harrowing journey leads to America, then to someplace better

Blade Runners

Hotel Rwanda finds hope amid the horrors of tribal genocide

Wild and Dirty

Hemmed in, polluted, under police guard, the New River is still as untamed as it gets in Fort Lauderdale

King Artless

Bruckheimer's knights go for grit but lose the glory

Cinematic Sprawl

The film festival that grew and grew

Hulk a Maniac?

Under Ang Lee, the big green guy gets a healthy dose of existentialism amid the action

The French Conniption

Neil Jordan and Nick Nolte pull off a twitchy Gallic heist

The Pitch

In 1988, Ron Shelton made Bull Durham. In 2002, it couldn't be done.

Cumming Up

Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

Dang Those Nuances

Merchant and Ivory return, as rarified as ever

Private Defective

Alan Rudolph's Trixie is happily stuck between a rock and the deep blue sea

The Way They Were

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