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.

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

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.

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.'

A blend of penetrating psychodrama and gripping incident seasoned with lighthearted humor.

Bette Davis was the grande dame Hollywood diva to end them all: physically striking, hugely talented, imperious, and mercurial.

Like its hero, extraordinary in every way.