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Salon.com January 8, 2003 Stephanie Zacharek |
"Two Weeks Notice" Even with a tired tycoon character and a lame script, Hugh Grant's wit and charm almost save this hit romantic comedy. But not quite.  |
Salon.com January 8, 2003 Charles Taylor |
"A Third Face" by Samuel Fuller Director Sam Fuller killed a few men, got hassled by the NAACP and J. Edgar Hoover, and made violent, vulgar, glorious movies that always went straight for the gonads.  |
Salon.com January 7, 2003 Charles Taylor |
National critics pick "The Pianist" In a bewildering year that offers no clear Oscar favorites, the National Society of Film Critics spurns Scorsese, Nicole and orchids in favor of Roman Polanski's Holocaust drama.  |
Reason January 2003 Brian Doherty |
Tears of a Clown Michael Moore and the impotence of leftist politics  |
Salon.com December 25, 2002 Charles Taylor |
"Catch Me If You Can" Leonardo DiCaprio looks great in those '60s threads, but Steven Spielberg's story of a legendary hustler is sadly short on period zip, zowie and va-va-voom.  |
Salon.com December 20, 2002 Stephanie Zacharek |
"Gangs of New York" "Gunsmoke" meets "Planet of the Apes" in Martin Scorsese's overlarge, overcooked epic of 19th century Manhattan. You should see it anyway.  |
Salon.com December 20, 2002 Jeff Stark |
"Narc" This solid genre flick plays '70s-style cops and robbers in Motown, with few survivors and fewer surprises.  |
Salon.com December 20, 2002 Stephanie Zacharek |
"Morvern Callar" Samantha Morton rules the screen in Lynne Ramsay's strange and powerful tale of a young Scottish woman dealing (or not dealing) with her boyfriend's Christmas suicide.  |
Salon.com December 20, 2002 Jeff Stark |
"25th Hour" Of course Spike Lee has the right to transcend movies about race. He also has the talent to do better than this plodding moral fable about a prison-bound Edward Norton.  |
Salon.com December 14, 2002 Andrew O'Hehir |
The last temptation of Martin Scorsese America's greatest living filmmaker on his 30-year quest to make "Gangs of New York," how he lost an Oscar to Kevin Costner and why he doesn't watch "The Sopranos."  |
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