Reviews of the latest films.

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• Rings Cycle The Fellowship of the Ring is astonishing—even if you haven't read the book.
  David Edelstein Dec. 19, 2001
  
• Close Your Eyes Vanilla Sky leaves a bad taste; Wes Anderson traps his actors in The Royal Tenenbaums.
  David Edelstein Dec. 14, 2001
  
• The Thing With the Stars in the Casino Steven Soderbergh's generically hip Ocean's Eleven.
  David Edelstein Dec. 7, 2001
  
• In the Thrall In the Bedroom is the most quietly devastating movie of the year.
  David Edelstein Nov. 23, 2001
  
• Flat Magic Harry Potter is utterly transporting but not at all enchanting.
  David Edelstein Nov. 16, 2001
  
• Finding the Inner Gwyneth Shallow Hal is a deeply humanist gross-out comedy; Heist is a deeply paranoid thriller.
  David Edelstein Nov. 9, 2001
  
• Noir de Vivre The Coen Brothers do the 1940s—plus irony—in The Man Who Wasn't There; Richard Linklater plays with Tape; Monsters, Inc. doesn't know its own strength.
  David Edelstein Nov. 2, 2001
  
• The Spacey-man Cometh In K-Pax, Kevin Spacey is still stuck in an O’Neill play; Intimacy is harshly unromantic. 
  David Edelstein Oct. 25, 2001
  
• A Universe in Flux  Richard Linklater's Waking Life is always moving; Riding in Cars With Boys slips into neutral; The Last Castle rumbles along like a tank.  
  David Edelstein Oct. 19, 2001
  
• Bloodless Bandits Barry Levinson's caper movie has no violence—or soul; The Operator is self-involved; Diamond Men shines on; My First Mister is Albert Brooks' first soap opera; Iron Monkey defies gravity.
  David Edelstein Oct. 13, 2001
  
• Drive South David Lynch's Mulholland Drive takes a switchback ride through the Hollywood hills; Va Savoir is an existential confection; Denzel Washington pulls out the stops in Training Day.
  David Edelstein Oct. 6, 2001
  
• Bitter Vengeance Dinner Rush is a marvelous revenge comedy; Don't Say a Word is a noisy mess. 
  David Edelstein Sept. 29, 2001
  
• Blankman Keanu Reeves' emptiness helps Hardball.
  Matt Feeney Sept. 22, 2001
  
• No Escape From New York 
  David Edelstein Sept. 14, 2001
  
• The Best Lover a Movie Could Have 
  David Edelstein Sept. 7, 2001
  
• The Horror, the Horror Jeepers Creepers has scary surprises; Together is Swedish, but happy anyway; Woody Allen runs on empty; Kevin Smith gets revenge on Web dweebs.
  David Edelstein Sept. 1, 2001
  
• Chilling Me Softly Five current thrillers—The Others, The Deep End, Session 9, Audition, and Cure—can't top the horror of Cage and Cruz in Captain Corelli's Mandolin. 
  David Edelstein Aug. 18, 2001
  
• Acid Redux The bitter taste of Coppola's new Apocalypse Now. 
  David Edelstein Aug. 11, 2001
  
• Beneath the Planet of the Apes Tim Burton's remake doesn't measure up. 
  David Edelstein July 28, 2001
  
• Thora! Thora! Thora! The star of Ghost World nails teen-age alienation; America's Sweethearts has one-liners, Julia Roberts, and not much more.
  David Edelstein July 21, 2001
  
• Crash of the Titans Brando and De Niro stumble through The Score; Bully is boorishly clumsy; Legally Blonde doesn't meet the bar.
  David Edelstein July 14, 2001
  
• Sons and Lovers John Singleton grows up with Baby Boy; Baise-Moi is angry but flaccid hardcore.
  David Edelstein July 7, 2001
  
• He Is Real. His Love Is Not. A.I. reveals Steven Spielberg's contempt for humanity.
  David Edelstein June 30, 2001
  
• They Pull Me Back In There's no escaping Ben Kingsley in the riotously entertaining Sexy Beast; The Fast and the Furious runs out of gas.
  David Edelstein June 23, 2001
  
• Lara, Lara, on the Wall Jolie's the best special effect of all in Tomb Raider; The Anniversary Party would be fine, except for all those actors.
  David Edelstein June 16, 2001
  
• Have Guilt Trip, Will Travel In Bread and Roses, Ken Loach raises Hollywood's consciousness; Swordfish has mercury poisoning; Evolution demonstrates the opposite. 
  David Edelstein June 9, 2001
  
• Makin' Copies Rob Schneider is on familiar ground in The Animal; Martin Lawrence is all over the place in What's the Worst That Could Happen?. 
  David Edelstein June 2, 2001
  
• Up Where We Belong Pearl Harbor is Top Gun with period costumes. 
  David Edelstein May 26, 2001
  
• Miracles Are Cheap Moulin Rouge is all empty excess; Startup.com documents the Internet bust; A Knight's Tale kicks mummy butt. 
  David Edelstein May 19, 2001
  
• Unraveled The Mummy Returns is a bunch of 1s and 0s in search of a movie.
  David Edelstein May 5, 2001
  
• Hardy Working The Claim takes Thomas Hardy out West; Freddy Got Fingered finds Tom Green at his worst.
  David Edelstein April 21, 2001
  
• Plump It Up Renée Zellweger is ripe for Bridget Jones's Diary; Josie and the Pussycats gets by on spunk; Amores Perros has a powerful bite.
  David Edelstein April 13, 2001
  
• Snow Job Snorting at the coke-addled Blow.
  David Edelstein April 6, 2001
  
• A Man, a Plan, a Flimflam Pierce Brosnan makes a devilish spy in The Tailor of Panama. 
  David Edelstein March 30, 2001
  
• Red-Hot Mama Sigourney Weaver vamps it up in Heartbreakers; more Farrelly antics in Say It Isn't So. 
  David Edelstein March 23, 2001
  
• Forward to the Past Memento begins with a killer ending; Enemy at the Gates can't even shoot straight.
  David Edelstein March 16, 2001
  
• The Pot Calling the Kettle Bloody 15 Minutes is red all over; Samuel L. Jackson makes a fine crime-solving psycho in The Caveman's Valentine. 
  David Edelstein March 9, 2001
  
• Keepin' It Real Series 7: The Contenders sends up Survivor; Julia Roberts and Brad Pitt hit it off in The Mexican. 
  David Edelstein March 2, 2001
  
• Pulling Punch Lines  Chris Rock, comic genius, falls Down to Earth. 
  Matt Feeney Feb. 23, 2001
  
• Paint by Numbers Pollock is just boilerplate biopic; Keanu makes a convincing jerk in Sweet November.
  David Edelstein Feb. 17, 2001
  
• Eat Me Raw The tasteless spectacle of Hannibal. 
  David Edelstein Feb. 9, 2001
  
• Ghost Dad  In Faithless, Ingmar Bergman beats himself up—but not nearly enough. 
  David Edelstein Feb. 2, 2001
  
• Guessing Games The Invisible Circus explains too much; The Pledge doesn't explain enough. And The Wedding Planner just flies by. 
  David Edelstein Jan. 26, 2001
  
• Pictures of Lily  Gillian Anderson is all wrong for The House of Mirth; Shadow of the Vampire is beautiful but bloodless; AntiTrust is hack work.  
  David Edelstein Jan. 12, 2001
  
• The Mexican Connection Like a good TV show, Traffic merges the pulp thriller with drug war headlines. 
  David Edelstein Jan. 5, 2001