Ethan Hawke

NYPD Blue: A sleepy follow-up to Training Day, Brooklyn's Finest cops out

Sneako de Mayo

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There's the Beef

Richard Linklater’s ensemble polemic may just turn you off burgers for good.

Truly, Madly, Darkly

Richard Linklater's Scanner is a rotoscoped feast for freaks

Good Shot

Lord of War unloads one of the year's best cinema moments

Beautiful Girls (1996)

Three letters: U-M-A

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Week of May 18, 2005

The Clock (1945)

Land of the milquetoast dullards

Unlucky 13

This Assault attacks the original and does no damage

Hooch Your Daddy

Magic Smoking Monkey fulfills celluloid dreams, '80s-cop-show-style

Until the Night

Delpy and Hawke reteam to ponder love Before Sunset

Summer Film Previews

Our critics enter the summer-movie fray

Breast in Show

Angelina Jolie stars in Taking Lives, but the filmmakers are the real boobs

Time and Again

Once more, Denzel's a good cop caught in a bad situation

SEAL Appeal

Antoine Fuqua and Bruce Willis lend nobility to brutes

Film Openings

Week of February 19, 2003

Team G-Attica

Simone pairs Pacino and Niccol in metaphorical mishap

Fight Club

When it comes to producing movies, it's a fine art (or Art Linson)

Film Openings

Week of May 8, 2002

Mexican Pie

Two teens come of age in Mexico, a country doing the same

Do the Wrong Thing

Former friends reckon with reality in Linklater's Tape

Film Openings

Week of November 21, 2001

Bad Cop, Bad Cop

Protected by a badge, Denzel (finally!) swaggers through L.A.'s mean streets

Imperfect 10s

Picking the best of a bad movie year

Hamlet

Adapted and directed by Michael Almereyda

SNOW FALLING ON CEDARS

Co-written and directed by Scott Hicks