Friday, May 25 2007

Tia Dalma of ‘Pirates’ was a role to dye for

By Roger Moore

Thursday, May 24 2007

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End (2007)

By Cynthia Fuchs

In the just-in-time for Memorial Day weekend Pirates sequel, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) pursues pleasure with the sort of determination usually associated with moviegoers.

Tuesday, May 1 2007

Monkey Business (Part 1: May)

By Bill Gibron

Talk about frontloading your approach. Each week in this first full month of patented popcorn movies finds another famous franchise icon making a major blockbuster bow. Only truly disastrous results from these guaranteed crowd-pleasers will keep the coffers from clogging with cash.

Sunday, January 1 1995

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

By Lucas Hilderbrand

The film's narrative unfolds slowly -- too slowly at first.

Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000)

By Oliver Wang

One doesn't need a Kung Fu Cinema background to enjoy 'Crouching Tiger', but it helps in appreciating how the movie builds on -- and arguably surpasses -- that rich cinematic tradition.

The Corruptor (1999)

By Cynthia Fuchs

'You don't change Chinatown. Chinatown changes you.' So warns Detective Nick Chen (Chow Yun Fat), upon meeting his squeaky clean newbie partner, Danny Wallace (Mark Wahlberg) in The Corruptor. And so persists the myth of Chinatown. Alluring, strange, and always inscrutable, in the movies it remains an uncrackable bastion of Otherness.