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2002 Stories by Manohla Dargis

• Un Certain Disregard

  published June 6, 2002

  Photo by Guy Ferrandis "WHERE IS THE RECTUM?!" AS AN ABSURDIST cri du cinéma and a possible festival metaphor, it was hard to beat this l... More >>

• Identity Trap

  published May 23, 2002

  Anyone familiar with the dire straits of American film distribution shouldn‘t have been shocked that no one wanted to chance a digitally sho... More >>

• Unhappily Ever After

  published May 16, 2002

  Adrian Lyne, the English television-commercial director turned Hollywood philosopher of the bedroom -- and the freight elevator, the public... More >>

• I, Bug

  published May 9, 2002

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• To Live and Skate in L.A.

  published May 2, 2002

  Jay Adams: Poetry in motion Tony Alva: Lighter than air Val Kilmer: Whatever kilmer, stephan vaughan ... More >>

• Good Work

  published April 25, 2002

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• Music Drill

  published April 18, 2002

  THE COVER OF ELFRIEDE JELINEK'S NOVEL THE PIANO Teacher hints at an intimate world of softcore pleasures -- a naked woman sits... More >>

• The Good Enough Thriller

  published April 11, 2002

  In the new thriller High Crimes, Morgan Freeman gives one of his now-patented performances -- he’s loose, sly, at once watchful and unwatchful... More >>

• Home Security

  published April 4, 2002

  THERE'S A SCENE AT THE BRUTAL, BLOODY CLOSE OF David Fincher's Panic Room that's so terrifying it rips you out of the movie's fiction... More >>

• The Cruelest Month

  published March 28, 2002

  Watching movies in March is a lot like shivering through the last days of a New York winter -- both are seasons of seemingly interminable... More >>

• Ordinary Heroes

  published March 21, 2002

  If you think the title sounds ominous, like an elegy to the late Beatle as sung by a children’s choir knee-deep in Beulah Land, consider th... More >>

• Mexican Hot Wax

  published March 14, 2002

  HOW DO YOU SEDUCE AN AMERICAN audience, one that's lost the taste for subtitles and the pleasures of complex moral tales, into watching a... More >>

• Boozers and Schmoozers

  published March 14, 2002

  There are generally two types of boozers in the movies, visionary barflies and ordinary sad sacks. The barfly is the guy with the... More >>

• How Neatly Spreads His Claws

  published January 31, 2002

  “Go for it,” said the crocodile, “if I can do it, you can too.” Onstage before a packed audience, the crocodile swiveled... More >>

• Let It Flow

  published January 24, 2002

  The Taiwanese film What Time Is It There? is awash in the effluents of everyday life -- the piss, the puke and especially the tears. Directed... More >>

• Caught Looking

  published January 17, 2002

  In the new film Kandahar, artificial legs fall from the sky, and women in burkas glide across the desert, alien creatures in an otherworldly... More >>