Reviews of the latest films.

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• Virginia Slim The Hours is a depressive closet case.
  David Edelstein Dec. 31, 2002
  
• Cell Block Tango Chicago reduces our critic to a finger-snappin', toe-tappin' fool.
  David Edelstein Dec. 27, 2002
  
• The Sound and the Saved The Pianist is the best film of 2002.
  David Edelstein Dec. 27, 2002
  
• Great Catch Catch Me If You Can is Spielberg's swingin' autobiography.
  David Edelstein Dec. 24, 2002
  
• Big Queasy Nic Cage's unfortunate Sonny incident.
  Michael Agger Dec. 23, 2002
  
• Nicholas Nickleby Goes to High School 
  Michael Agger Dec. 23, 2002
  
• Let It Bleed Gangs of New York is too damned short.
  David Edelstein Dec. 20, 2002
  
• Back Door Blues What Spike Lee's 25th Hour is really about. 
  David Edelstein Dec. 19, 2002
  
• Force of Hobbit The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers is a glorious, visceral mess.
  David Edelstein Dec. 18, 2002
  
• Prime Warp Star Trek: Nemesis is a proud addition to the franchise.
  David Edelstein Dec. 13, 2002
  
• Omaha Lineman Even Jack Nicholson can't save About Schmidt.
  David Edelstein Dec. 12, 2002
  
• J. Lo Cleans Up In Maid in Manhattan, Jennifer Lopez stoops to conquer.
  Michael Agger Dec. 11, 2002
  
• Adapt That Don't underestimate Personal Velocity.
  David Edelstein Dec. 6, 2002
  
• Adapt This The self-intoxication of Adaptation.
  David Edelstein Dec. 5, 2002
  
• Personal Space Solaris is Steven Soderbergh's ravishing lament for lost love.
  David Edelstein Nov. 27, 2002
  
• Arrivederci, Coma Almodóvar's Talk to Her is stupendous.
  David Edelstein Nov. 22, 2002
  
• The Spy Who Went Into the Cold He thrilled me, then betrayed me in the end.
  David Edelstein Nov. 21, 2002
  
• Goody-Two-Brooms Sophomore year at Hogwarts.
  David Edelstein Nov. 14, 2002
  
• Mission: Improbable Femme Fatale is an outrageous, nonsensical new treat for thriller gluttons.
  David Edelstein Nov. 8, 2002
  
• Chocolate City 8 Mile is a rap-star Rocky.
  David Edelstein Nov. 8, 2002
  
• Lady's Home Journal Far From Heaven is as stunning as you've heard.
  David Edelstein Nov. 7, 2002
  
• Uncle Scam Roger Dodger is buoyant, even when it's grim; I Spy is disheveled and pointless.
  David Edelstein Nov. 4, 2002
  
• Paris Non-Match The Truth About Charlie is grating; All or Nothing is a relentless dirge; Frida is a brainy, beautiful soap opera.
  David Edelstein Nov. 1, 2002
  
• Video Killed the TV Star Paul Schrader turns Auto Focus into an anti-sex dirge; The Ring adds, "Don't watch that tape!" 
  David Edelstein Oct. 18, 2002
  
• Guns 'n' Moses Punch-Drunk Love is a sweet, passive-aggressive romance; Bowling for Columbine transcends Michael Moore's thuggery.
  David Edelstein Oct. 11, 2002
  
• Red Drag Red Dragon is no Manhunter.
  David Edelstein Oct. 4, 2002
  
• Death Takes a Quaalude Moonlight Mile is the worst film of the year; Igby Goes Down is the best.
  David Edelstein Sept. 27, 2002
  
• Spanking Good Time Secretary is a romantic fairy tale of deliverance; Goldie Hawn gives the performance of her life in The Banger Sisters.
  David Edelstein Sept. 20, 2002
  
• Jailhouse Mock Das Experiment is a new, chilling kind of prison drama.
  Bryan Curtis Sept. 13, 2002
  
• Parent Trap City by the Sea is overwritten but precisely played; My Big Fat Greek Wedding has a rare, audience-seducing weapon.
  David Edelstein Sept. 6, 2002
  
• Blue Plate Special Mostly Martha is a mournful comedy; One Hour Photo is overexposed; and Simone is a lame cyber-satire.
  David Edelstein Aug. 23, 2002
  
• On a Wave and a Prayer Blue Crush is a cool August date movie; Possession is less than nine-tenths of the book.
  David Edelstein Aug. 16, 2002
  
• In Lukewarm Blood Blood Work is an anemic dud; The Good Girl is funny but contemptuous.
  David Edelstein Aug. 9, 2002
  
• The Corn Is Flat Signs is a hucksterish religious parable; Full Frontal is one big muddy mistake.
  David Edelstein Aug. 2, 2002
  
• The Man With the Midas Schlong Austin Powers in Goldmember is an ode to indecent joy; The Kid Stays in the Picture is almost as trippy.
  David Edelstein July 26, 2002
  
• Russian Redressing K-19: The Widowmaker is a grimly heartfelt thriller about systemic rot.
  David Edelstein July 19, 2002
  
• Tommy Guns Road to Perdition is a grandiose, dour Charles Bronson flick; Me Without You is both impish and wise; Tosca is a mess, but one with erotic chemistry.
  David Edelstein July 11, 2002
  
• Suit Case Men in Black II is a landmark Hollywood disgrace; Mr. Deeds is both bad and "bad."
  David Edelstein July 2, 2002
  
• Blame Runner Minority Report is a fabulous, witty totalitarian nightmare.
  David Edelstein June 21, 2002
  
• Four Days of the Cipher The Bourne Identity is a soothingly mundane amnesia thriller; The Fast Runner is anything but a ceremonial ethnographic slog.
  David Edelstein June 14, 2002
  
• Cowboys and Indians Windtalkers is kinetic but fundamentally schlocky; Divine Secrets is a spacey tribute to mystical feminine animism.
  David Edelstein June 7, 2002
  
• Hard Day's Night Insomnia sleepwalks through its plot, yet still delivers a nerve-jangling jolt; plus About a Boy, The Believer, and Bartleby.
  David Edelstein May 24, 2002
  
• A New Hope? Attack of the Clones is better than you've heard.
  David Edelstein May 15, 2002
  
• Eight Legs To Hold You Spider-Man swings along with brio; Hollywood Ending should send Woody Allen running back to drama.
  David Edelstein May 3, 2002
  
• A Farce With Force The Triumph of Love, a midsummer romantic cross-dressing romp; Angelina Jolie sleepwalks through Life or Something Like It; The Salton Sea is drug-noir hooey.
  David Edelstein April 26, 2002
  
• By the Numbers Murder by Numbers does the Nietzschean nihilist killer thing; Frailty likes its ax murderers righteous; The Cat's Meow has no momentum.
  David Edelstein April 19, 2002
  
• Vigilantes Anonymous Changing Lanes is a 12-step thriller; Human Nature is an untamed Being John Malkovich.
  David Edelstein April 12, 2002
  
• Death of an Everysalesman High Crimes goes low; Time Out is a strangely comforting capitalist screed.
  David Edelstein April 5, 2002
  
• Shut Out David Fincher can't get inside Panic Room; Death to Smoochy has a cackling venality.
  David Edelstein March 29, 2002
  
• Lipschtick Lesbians Kissing Jessica Stein plays it a little too straight.
  Stephen Metcalf March 22, 2002
  
• Your Mama Should Know Y Tu Mamá También is breezy, funny, and sexy as hell; Showtime is lazy, artless, and cost $90 million.
  David Edelstein March 15, 2002
  
• Wells Run Dry The Time Machine has no spirit; Esther Kahn is so 1950s.
  David Edelstein March 8, 2002
  
• Before the Boondoggle We Were Soldiers is a bloody, harrowing look at the early days of the Vietnam War.
  David Edelstein March 1, 2002
  
• Under the Rainbow Dragonfly keeps you guessing for a good 20 minutes; Monsoon Wedding has a sparkling chaos; Big BadLove indulges your dissolute-writer fantasy.
  David Edelstein Feb. 22, 2002
  
• Navel Academy Britney Spears' Crossroads is sleazy but plain vanilla; Last Orders is an end-of-life road movie; John Q.'s vigilante becomes a liberal.
  David Edelstein Feb. 15, 2002
  
• Domestic Disturbance An unsettling new documentary explores spousal abuse; Collateral Damage is In the Bedroom for meatheads.
  David Edelstein Feb. 8, 2002
  
• Welcome to the Suburbs Todd Solondz's Storytelling only tells half the story; I Am Sam is manipulative as hell, but sweet.
  David Edelstein Jan. 25, 2002
  
• Werewolves of Paris Brotherhood of the Wolf is a French historical forensics blowout; The Shipping News stays at arm's length; Monster's Ball knows not what it says.
  David Edelstein Jan. 18, 2002
  
• Recommended Capsule reviews of current movies.
  David Edelstein Jan. 11, 2002
  
• Serve the Servants Robert Altman's new masterpiece.
  David Edelstein Jan. 11, 2002