Reinhart subjects each film to minute detail, providing complete cast lists, release information, elaborate plot summaries, historical context, critiques, and-in the case of the serials-chapter titles with individual release dates.

A year or two before Batman, [Bob] Kane began collaborating with writer Bill Finger (1914-1974), now widely accepted as the unsung co-creator of Batman...Finger is now acknowledged as the creator of Robin, Alfred, Catwoman, Penguin, Two-Face and, eventual

Batman Begins: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

The Art of Batman Begins

The 5 books Christopher Nolan (director), Christian Bale (star), and David Goyer (screenwriter) cite as inspiration.

It isn't mere hype to call this book "a must for every Batman fan's bookshelf"—any fan of the Batman comics, that is.

Two years after Match Point, Allen delivers another London-set murder melodrama, with diminishing returns.

Harold Prince's original staging remains the gold standard, but John Doyle offers an intriguing alternative on Sondheim's ode to commitment anxiety.

The visions, the menagerie of women and the horrid behavior of Tommy Gavin suggest a lewd FDNY variation on 8 1/2, and one that's still going plenty strong after four thirteen-episode seasons.

An anti-Independence Day, a cousin of Close Encounters, but most of all, a well-modulated, dread-laden, faith-based mystery.

Every time you see a comedic eye-gouging or an errant board swinging around and catching someone in the face, it's a passed torch that was held for decades by the Three Stooges.

Watchable only for its star power and scarce caffeine kicks...awfully predictable.

The mysteriously titled project might just as well have been called "9/11: The Thrill Ride," so thoroughly does it trade on our emotions of that disaster.

You'll forget this one ten paces from the theatre.

Tarsem hasn't the Gilliamesque chops to make The Fall amount to anything more than a monument to preposterous thinking.

King whips up enough quips and emotional moments to treat the faithful to a sort of moviegoing spa.

If you put yourself through the wringer only once this year, you could do worse than The Strangers.

An audacious comic-book movie on steroids...cinematic junk food, but even a dieter deserves to cheat once in a while.

Seinfeld's pleasingly idiosyncratic comic voice comes through in the haphazard, slaphappy storyline.

This is your action movie on drugs—any questions?

Full-blown 'Jack'—his face a spectacular special effect of full-blown energy—remains an irresistible act.

It may not be fashionable to like Twister, but darn if it isn't an entertaining electro-shock of action cinema.

Probably the riskiest thing I did was being pulled behind a moving SUV down train tracks. Um, that was a little scary.

The time is right to reappraise the revamp: yes, it's a shadow of the original series, but it has its high points.

I watched anything I could get my hands on that Lily Tomlin was in. I'd watch a lot of Meryl Streep movies. Women who have spectacular timing.

I thought it would be interesting to see how he becomes Max. How they met. I know there was one story of how they met, obviously, in the pilot, in 1965, but I thought, 'Okay, what if we take a little license there and come up with our own...'

A poor man's rehash of A Passage to India.

All suggestion and no imposition, a subtle meditation on how we position ourselves in space and to what end.

Though Adamson lacks Lewis' storytelling confidence...The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe still comes across as a quirkily diverting children's entertainment.

Approached with an open mind, The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles offers an intriguing angle on one of the greatest characters in modern cinema.

The eventual arrival of towering screen presence Sean Connery as Dr. Henry Jones, Sr. alongside Harrison Ford as Dr. Henry Jones, Jr. allows for what may be adventure cinema's most potent pairing.

If it was a sign of the times for Indiana Jones to take on more of a comic-book aspect, the film's accomodation of darker themes and explicit imagery came as something of a shock to many.

The postmodern heir to North By Northwest...like any deathless classic, Raiders is a perfect marriage of star and material.

A quintessentially American play, revisited...this one has towering performances from Rashad and McDonald.

Being allowed to grow up feeling you're not being watched, not being tracked and able to do stupid things and screw up, being able to make mistakes, I think, was the key. Being allowed to screw up is wonderful...

People might give us a chance who wouldn't normally come to a Marvel-type film.

A series of serviceable creep-outs and jolts...the pretzel-shaped resolution feels like too little too late.

The script includes a verbal motif that reminds us of what binds the film's four central talents together: 'I want to show you something.'