Reviews of the latest films.

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• The 34 Best Movies of 2003 Child spellers, hobbits, and the year in cinema.
  David Edelstein Dec. 31, 2003
  
• Portraits of a Serial Killer The life and death of Aileen Wuornos.
  David Edelstein Dec. 27, 2003
  
• The Blue. The Gray. The Gold. Cold Mountain has the Civil War (and Oscars) in its sights.
  David Edelstein Dec. 24, 2003
  
• Gloom With a View The sadness of House of Sand and Fog.
  David Edelstein Dec. 22, 2003
  
• To Mordor and Back Peter Jackson's wondrous Return of the King.
  David Edelstein Dec. 16, 2003
  
• The Other Woman Diane Keaton scores in Something's Gotta Give.
  David Edelstein Dec. 12, 2003
  
• Hollywood's New Maturity Tim Burton and the Farrelly brothers try to grow up.
  David Edelstein Dec. 12, 2003
  
• Santa Slays Billy Bob Thornton vs. kids in Bad Santa. Tom Cruise vs. capitalism in The Last Samurai.
  David Edelstein Dec. 5, 2003
  
• Child's Play Kids in peril in 21 Grams and The Missing.
  David Edelstein Nov. 26, 2003
  
• In America, the Beautiful Jim Sheridan composes a polyphonic rhapsody to family.
  David Edelstein Nov. 26, 2003
  
• Sex, Drugs, and Canadian Health Care The pleasures of Denys Arcand's Barbarian Invasions.
  David Edelstein Nov. 25, 2003
  
• Amateur Knight Richard Donner gets medieval in Timeline.
  Bryan Curtis Nov. 24, 2003
  
• This Cat's a Dog Mike Myers sinks his claws into Seuss.
  David Edelstein Nov. 20, 2003
  
• Wabbit Season Bugs and Daffy reclaim past glory in Looney Tunes: Back in Action.
  David Edelstein Nov. 14, 2003
  
• Naval Gazing Peter Weir's swashbuckling Master and Commander.
  David Edelstein Nov. 14, 2003
  
• Everyone Says I Love You The many romances of Love Actually.
  David Edelstein Nov. 7, 2003
  
• Little Big Man Will Ferrell, under wraps, in Elf.
  Michael Agger Nov. 6, 2003
  
• The Matrix: Regurgitated The final episode is a slam-bang, dreary mess.
  David Edelstein Nov. 5, 2003
  
• All Too Human The perils of filming Philip Roth.
  David Edelstein Oct. 31, 2003
  
• Alien Autopsy What makes Ridley Scott's horror film so unnerving?
  Michael Agger Oct. 31, 2003
  
• Stephen's Bogus Journey The fabricator squirms in Shattered Glass.
  David Edelstein Oct. 30, 2003
  
• Dead Poet's Society Sylvia makes a fetish of suicide.
  David Edelstein Oct. 24, 2003
  
• The Kids in the Hall Gus Van Sant deconstructs Columbine in Elephant.
  David Edelstein Oct. 24, 2003
  
• Johnny Got His Gun Grisham's Runaway Jury puts arms makers on trial.
  David Edelstein Oct. 17, 2003
  
• Dwarf Star Peter Dinklage shines in The Station Agent.
  David Edelstein Oct. 16, 2003
  
• King George vs. Catherine the Great Intolerable Cruelty, the Coen brothers' latest exercise in irony.
  David Edelstein Oct. 10, 2003
  
• Kill Joy Quentin Tarantino's bloody, empty bliss.
  David Edelstein Oct. 9, 2003
  
• Youth and Consequences Three men fight off the past in MysticRiver.
  David Edelstein Oct. 8, 2003
  
• Dead Calm Washington is the cat's pajamas in Out of Time.
  David Edelstein Oct. 3, 2003
  
• Reading, Writing, and Rocking In School of Rock, Jack Black helps kids find their inner headbanger.
  David Edelstein Oct. 3, 2003
  
• The Woman Upstairs An old crone torments her neighbors in Duplex.
  David Edelstein Sept. 26, 2003
  
• The Italian Job Fantasy and home repair in Under the Tuscan Sun.
  David Edelstein Sept. 26, 2003
  
• The Rock Opera A schlock hero is born—almost—in The Rundown.
  Michael Agger Sept. 24, 2003
  
• A Bloody Mess Kate Beckinsale and the vampires of Underworld.
  David Edelstein Sept. 19, 2003
  
• Woody's Angry The nebbish makes his ugliest comedy yet.
  David Edelstein Sept. 18, 2003
  
• Con Men Two duds from Robert Rodriguez and Ridley Scott.
  David Edelstein Sept. 12, 2003
  
• Prisoner of Japan Bill Murray opens up in Lost in Translation.
  David Edelstein Sept. 11, 2003
  
• Say, Didn't You Used To Be on TV? David Spade washes up in Dickie Roberts.
  David Edelstein Sept. 5, 2003
  
• The Middle of Nowhere Brits become Western heroes in Once Upon a Time in the Midlands.
  David Edelstein Sept. 5, 2003
  
• JAP Rap In Marci X, Lisa Kudrow plays a princess with a rap label.
  David Edelstein Aug. 25, 2003
  
• Girls Gone Wild Thirteen is a cautionary tale about a good girl who turns bad.
  David Edelstein Aug. 20, 2003
  
• Blood Brothers The titans of horror go mano a mano in Freddy vs. Jason.
  David Edelstein Aug. 15, 2003
  
• The Thrilling Adventures of Harvey Pekar In which he mopes, sulks, and complains a lot.
  David Edelstein Aug. 14, 2003
  
• S.T.I.N.K.S. The high crimes of S.W.A.T.
  David Edelstein Aug. 8, 2003
  
• They Know the Drill A marriage rots in The Secret Lives of Dentists.
  David Edelstein Aug. 7, 2003
  
• The Mod Couple Ben and J-Lo attempt acting.
  David Edelstein Aug. 1, 2003
  
• My Horrible Laundrette In The Magdalene Sisters, Irish girls get sentenced to torture and dry cleaning. 
  David Edelstein Aug. 1, 2003
  
• Pale Horse The one thing missing from Seabiscuit is … Seabiscuit.
  David Edelstein July 25, 2003
  
• The London Underground Stephen Frears probes the immigrant class in Dirty Pretty Things.
  David Edelstein July 18, 2003
  
• The Longest Yar Pirates of the Caribbeansails too far. The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen is shipwrecked.
  David Edelstein July 11, 2003
  
• The Celluloid Pirate Hollywood's strange fascination with buccaneers.
  Bryan Curtis July 11, 2003
  
• Unsafe at Any Speed The pornography of highway safety films.
  David Edelstein July 11, 2003
  
• The Breast Stroke Swimming Pool has gobs of nudity, but does it have a point?
  David Edelstein July 8, 2003
  
• The Terminator at 55 The robot-crushes-man franchise shows its age.
  David Edelstein July 1, 2003
  
• Fallen Angels Babes? Yes. Director? No.
  David Edelstein June 27, 2003
  
• Zombies Ate My Neighbors The undead munch on London in 28 Days Later.
  David Edelstein June 26, 2003
  
• Hulk B-a-a-a-a-d Ang Lee's green monster never comes to life.
  David Edelstein June 19, 2003
  
• Cops and Rappers Hollywood Homicide, a buddy-cop movie that's actually worth seeing.
  David Edelstein June 13, 2003
  
• The Hired Muscle Meet Franky G., Hollywood's newest tough guy.
  David Edelstein June 12, 2003
  
• Drive, Dammit, Drive! 2 Fast2 Furious is too chaste and too lame.
  Michael Agger June 5, 2003
  
• His Father's Son The haunted men of Capturing the Friedmans.
  David Edelstein June 5, 2003
  
• Swimming With Sharks Finding Nemo is a dazzling film about a clown fish.
  David Edelstein May 30, 2003
  
• Another Heist Movie The inspired clichés of The Italian Job.
  David Edelstein May 30, 2003
  
• Paris, Texas A French cowboy haunts Patrice Leconte's Man on the Train.
  David Edelstein May 23, 2003
  
• Oh, God! More heartwarming mush from Jim Carrey.
  David Edelstein May 23, 2003
  
• Walk Away, Renée Zellweger should've avoided the sex comedy Down With Love.
  David Edelstein May 16, 2003
  
• Neo Con TheMatrix Reloaded: We waited four years for this?
  David Edelstein May 14, 2003
  
• In the Line of Fire South America explodes in John Malkovich's directorial debut.
  David Edelstein May 14, 2003
  
• Boy Hates Girl The Shape of Things, Neil LaBute's latest exercise in misanthropy.
  David Edelstein May 8, 2003
  
• Save the Mutants! The Army targets superheroes for extinction in X2.
  David Edelstein May 2, 2003
  
• Killer Bee The nation's best spellers square off in Spellbound.
  David Edelstein April 30, 2003
  
• Houses of Games Confidence and Identity, two slick movies that share a special lousiness.
  David Edelstein April 25, 2003
  
• To Helsinki in a Handbasket The Man Without a Past is witty movie about the Finnish underclass.
  David Edelstein April 21, 2003
  
• Slouching Tiger Bulletproof Monk is a kung-fu version of American Pie.
  David Edelstein April 18, 2003
  
• Tap Into Folk A Mighty Wind, Christopher Guest's new adventure in improv.
  David Edelstein April 16, 2003
  
• Kicking and Screaming Adam Sandler is angry—what a concept.
  David Edelstein April 10, 2003
  
• Disconnected Phone Booth is a clever thriller with a brain-dead ending.
  David Edelstein April 4, 2003
  
• The Thief of Monte Carlo Nick Nolte's magical heist movie.
  David Edelstein April 4, 2003
  
• Oy, Africa Why that Jews-in-Kenya movie won an Oscar.
  David Edelstein March 28, 2003
  
• Faster, Faster! Deeper, Deeper! The Core is a joyous movie about the Earth exploding.
  David Edelstein March 28, 2003
  
• Little Brown Men The aliens of Dreamcatcher have a taste for human rectums.
  David Edelstein March 21, 2003
  
• Two Critics and a Producer Chat About the Oscars 
  David Edelstein March 20, 2003
  
• Kicking, But Not Alive Bend It Like Beckham is a soccer movie without great soccer.
  David Edelstein March 14, 2003
  
• On the Trail of the Assassin William Friedkin's The Hunted is cold and remote—just like the director.
  David Edelstein March 14, 2003
  
• Irreversible Errors Gaspar Noé's cinematic rape.
  David Edelstein March 7, 2003
  
• Shafted in Africa Bruce Willis wants out of Nigeria in Tears of the Sun.
  David Edelstein March 7, 2003
  
• Flip the Switch The Life of David Gale makes the electric chair seem humane.
  David Edelstein March 3, 2003
  
• Eight Legs, No Teeth Why is David Cronenberg holding back in Spider?
  David Edelstein Feb. 28, 2003
  
• A Dead Man in Essex Lawless Heart is an unruly gem.
  David Edelstein Feb. 21, 2003
  
• Cop Out Ron Shelton made two-thirds of a great police drama. Then he gave in.
  David Edelstein Feb. 21, 2003
  
• Ben in Tights Daredevil'sbest stunts are borrowed from Batman.
  David Edelstein Feb. 14, 2003
  
• Sand Trap Gus Van Sant's desert folly. Plus: All the Real Girls.
  David Edelstein Feb. 14, 2003
  
• Knightmare Why Terry Gilliam is no Don Quixote.
  David Edelstein Feb. 7, 2003
  
• The Big Sleepover The fatal flaw of How To Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
  David Edelstein Feb. 6, 2003
  
• The Sweaty Englishman The Quiet American is fast, mythically uneasy, and brilliantly acted.
  David Edelstein Jan. 31, 2003
  
• Stupid Spy Tricks The Recruit brings us vaudeville night at the CIA.
  David Edelstein Jan. 31, 2003
  
• My Dinner With Adolf Max is riotously tasteless; Amen is a rejoinder to Blind Spot.
  David Edelstein Jan. 24, 2003
  
• Rio Bravado City of God is a virtuoso action flick … about Brazilian poverty.
  David Edelstein Jan. 17, 2003
  
• The Father Also Rises The Son is a rewarding exercise in sensory deprivation.
  David Edelstein Jan. 14, 2003
  
• King Gong Confessions of a Dangerous Mind is a heady pop trip.
  David Edelstein Jan. 10, 2003
  
• Endgames The suicidal doubleheader of Morvern Callar and Love Liza.
  Michael Agger Jan. 2, 2003