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Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides is as high-minded and literary as its source material.

The most impressive effect in 30 Days of Night is Danny Huston's haircut.

Maybe Erik just is so dim that he doesn't understand what's at stake in his storytelling, the way it reflects and repeats a history of storytelling.

Purposefully ending one's life is often seen as a last act of personal desperation. But in Jefferey Eugenides' poignant, bewitching novel, it may actually be a form of salvation.

Why the detectives are obsessed with the murder is never clear, though it may have to do with the vacuum of a movie swirling around them: they've got nothing else to do.

Despite the title of the movie he lives in, Slevin (Josh Hartnett) is only partly lucky.

Like the guys, the girls are undone by their reliance on conventional male power signs.

Distraught, ornery, self-critical, these heroes are certainly more "anti" types than straight-ahead.

Unlikely as it seems, Matthew Lillard is the saving grace of Paul McGuigan's wretched remake of L'Appartement.

Black Hawk Down illustrates well the absurdity and chaos of urban warfare: there's no ground to be won, no victory to be claimed.

My intention was to make a picture that on one level was a genre movie, summer movie, kind of a cop movie, whatever that genre is, and at the same time, to serve different gods.

Short version: Joe's hardheaded and eats cheeseburgers, K.C.'s into fluidity and bean sprouts.

An action movie dressed up like an art film, 'Black Hawk Down' is not about betrayal or anger, but heroism and patriotic fervor.

'40 Days and 40 Nights' is a love story, yes, about a boy and his penis.