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2000 Stories by Manohla Dargis

• Go! Go! Go!

  published December 28, 2000

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo The great danger for any artist is to find himself comfortable. It’s his duty to find the point of maximu... More >>

• The Good, the Bad and the Fucked

  published December 14, 2000

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• The Big Bang

  published December 7, 2000

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• Head Trips

  published November 9, 2000

  Of course, it’s terrible -- but did it have to be this bad? Drew Barrymore, Cameron Diaz and Lucy Liu are Charlie‘s newly configured Angel... More >>

• Money Talks

  published October 26, 2000

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• Good Pop, Bad Pop

  published October 12, 2000

  With The Woman Chaser, Robinson Devor has captured the mood and eccentric tone, the surreal, bare-knuckled Weltanschauung, of Charles... More >>

• Brief Encounters

  published October 5, 2000

  As if to persuade us that the recently fizzled summer wasn’t the dreariest in years, or further evidence of an industry in permanent crisis... More >>

• Gonna Make You Groove

  published September 21, 2000

  With Almost Famous, Cameron Crowe has made a hugely entertaining, nearly pitch-perfect film about rock & roll and the moment when, at the age... More >>

• The Moralist

  published September 14, 2000

  Photo by Julian Anderson " . . . it's interesting, you know, how things'll work out. well, not 'out,' i guess, not so much that as maybe... More >>

• Too Simple

  published July 13, 2000

  Next week, the first feature made by Joel and Ethan Coen will reopen in theaters, a non-event motivated by the release of the film on DVD. In a... More >>

• Blow Hard

  published July 6, 2000

  The Perfect Storm is a big Hollywood movie about a big Atlantic storm and the men and women who were swept up in its catastrophic wake. It’... More >>

• Let It Drool

  published June 29, 2000

  In the newest comedy of bad manners from Bobby and Peter Farrelly, Jim Carrey plays a motorcycle cop named Charlie. A gentle soul with a... More >>

• The Big Wet One

  published June 22, 2000

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• Time Regained

  published June 1, 2000

  The 53rd Festival International du Film, known to all save its host country more modestly as Cannes, ended not with a bang but a melancholic... More >>

• Saving General Maximus

  published May 11, 2000

  There’s a reason why there are so many crummy movies about imperial Rome -- the men wore skirts, the violence was grotesque and the populac... More >>

• I Shot Patrick Bateman

  published April 20, 2000

  Photo by Robin HollandIt was sometime in April 1998 when Mary Harron first found out that the world’s biggest movie star was about to swallow he... More >>

• Being James Toback

  published April 13, 2000

  Writer and director James Toback doesn’t so much make movies as peel back his forehead and invite us -- importune us, dare us, beg us -- t... More >>

• The Song Remains the Same

  published April 6, 2000

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• Wild Kingdom

  published March 23, 2000

  It is unlawful in California to buy or sell python skin, but not to possess it: Josephine Loka embossed-leather lace-up pants (at... More >>

• Unnecessary Evil

  published March 16, 2000

  Roman Polanski‘s irrelevance has seemed a sure thing for some time now. Chinatown, after all, was released 26 years ago, and The Tenant, hi... More >>

• What Planet Are They From?

  published March 9, 2000

  IN THE UNFUNNY NEW COMEDY WHAT PLANET ARE You From?, directed by Mike Nichols and co-written... More >>

• What Planet Are They From?

  published March 9, 2000

  In the unfunny new comedy What Planet Are You From?, directed by Mike Nichols and co-written by comedian Garry Shandling, the big joke is: What... More >>

• Campus Confidential

  published March 2, 2000

  in the new movie from curtis hanson -- a reworking of a novel light-years removed from L.A. Confidential, the director‘s last inspire... More >>