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2001 Stories by Manohla Dargis

• Worlds of Wonder

  published December 27, 2001

  © 2001 New Line Productions Cherished by fantasy fans and the now-graying habitués of head shops everywhere, J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic novel The... More >>

• High Hopes

  published December 20, 2001

  Wes Anderson is an authentic original -- an eccentric and heretical talent. Now 31, he has directed only a handful of films, including an... More >>

• Nice ’n’ Easy

  published December 13, 2001

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• See Owen Run

  published December 6, 2001

  The new military thriller Behind Enemy Lines takes as its very loose point of departure the story of NATO fighter pilot Scott O’Grady‘s Bosni... More >>

• Just Mild About Harry

  published November 22, 2001

  Photo by Peter Mountain In the latest installment in the ongoing and wildly lucrative adventures of Harry Potter — conqueror of bookwor... More >>

• Sleepless in Montmartre

  published November 8, 2001

  Writing in The New Yorker some 10 years ago, critic Terrence Rafferty memorably declaimed that the absurd pop thriller La Femme... More >>

• Childhood’s End

  published November 1, 2001

  Photo by Dale Robinette In the unsettling new film Donnie Darko, a teenage boy can’t figure out whether the world’s gone mad or he ha... More >>

• Truly Sad, Truly Monstrous

  published October 25, 2001

  A dream of the movies as well as a nightmare, David Lynch‘s newest film is a phantasmagoria of hot bottle blondes, cold-blooded monsters an... More >>

• Born To Be Bad

  published October 11, 2001

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• Male Malfeasance

  published October 4, 2001

  Why does Michael Douglas still insist on playing good guys? As his appropriately titled new film, Don‘t Say a Word, only confirms, it isn’t... More >>

• Not a Movie

  published September 27, 2001

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• Pauline Kael

  published September 20, 2001

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• Whole Lotta Love

  published September 13, 2001

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• Repo Men

  published August 30, 2001

  Not long after the new ramshackle comedy from Kevin Smith lurches to a start, sometime after the 43rd use of the word suck and the 84th... More >>

• The Last Movie

  published August 9, 2001

  Apocalypse Now Redux Courtesy of American Zoetrope and Miramax Films I mean, the war is essentially a Los Angeles export, like acid... More >>

• 'Everyone’s Too Stupid!'

  published July 26, 2001

  Photo by Tracy Bennett The title of the new film Ghost World comes from the graphic novel written and drawn by Daniel Clowes, a Bay... More >>

• Shivers

  published July 19, 2001

  The fantastically original Japanese director Kiyoshi Kurosawa has no Western analogue, though he has professed an admiration for Tobe Hooper --... More >>

• Clash of the Titans

  published July 5, 2001

  The great science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick once asked, in the title of a novel, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? The novel, which... More >>

• Running on Empty

  published June 28, 2001

  The Princess and the Warrior and another Dolittle Princess Dolittle Princess, bernd spauke; Dolittle, bruce... More >>

• Who’s Afraid of Jennifer Jason Leigh?

  published June 14, 2001

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• Wounds That Heal

  published May 31, 2001

  “We’re all tricksters,” said the old man, “and we‘re all here to survive.” Perched on a podium, flanked by actors and producers, shiel... More >>

• She Shtups To Conquer

  published April 26, 2001

  Photo by John P. Johnson True story: A famous writer I know shops a screenplay that features several female characters. As it turns out,... More >>

• Dogs, Bodies

  published April 19, 2001

  If you haven’t fled the theater 20 minutes into the new Mexican film Amores Perros, you’ll be hooked until the end.... More >>

• The Feminist Stripped Bare

  published March 29, 2001

  As a labor-movement rallying cry, it’s pretty hard to beat “No Contracts, No Pussy!” Clearly, the strippers who fought to unionize ... More >>

• Tick, Tick . . . Kablooey!

  published March 15, 2001

  The young actress Noelle Evans needs a new agent, fast, and not just because you’ve never heard of her. Blond, stacked, good-looking in a... More >>