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2000 Stories by Andy Klein

• Good Will Hunting 2: The Revenge

  published December 28, 2000

  Finding Forrester is the latest film from Gus Van Sant, one of the true American originals to emerge in the '80s and '90s. When Van... More >>

• Still Fab After All These Years

  published December 21, 2000

  Thirty-five years ago, at the height of Beatlemania -- the phenomenon, not the stage show -- some cynics pooh-poohed the notion that the... More >>

• Emotion in Motion

  published December 21, 2000

  For a little over a decade, Chinese martial arts films have -- directly and indirectly -- gained a growing audience in America. Now the genre may... More >>

• A Woven Life

  published December 14, 2000

  With luck, Yi Yi (A One and a Two), the seventh release from writer/director Edward Yang, one of Taiwan's most respected filmmakers,... More >>

• Naval Gazing

  published November 9, 2000

  November may mean Thanksgiving to most of us, but in the film biz it means a rush of "serious" films trying to gouge an impression into the short... More >>

• Run Robber Run

  published November 9, 2000

  At first glance, the new Japanese import Non-Stop seems to be a crude knockoff of German director Tom Tykwer's wonderful Run Lola... More >>

• Hall of Mirrors

  published November 2, 2000

  The current release of French director Nicole Garcia's Place Vendôme -- which was nominated for eleven César Awards when it... More >>

• Past Imperfect

  published September 14, 2000

  In recent years, the fabulous Chilean expatriate director Raoul (sometimes Raul) Ruiz has moved from shoestring-budgeted features that could... More >>

• Fight Club

  published August 24, 2000

  Despite its late-summer release date -- usually a sign of studio jitters -- The Art of War is a mostly well-constructed action flick... More >>

• Old Hands

  published August 3, 2000

  It's a pleasure to say that Clint Eastwood reverses his recent downward slide -- A Perfect World (1993), The Bridges of Madison... More >>

• Wheeler-Dealer

  published June 22, 2000

  Before we see anything in Croupier, the new film from director Mike Hodges and screenwriter Paul Mayersberg, we hear the grainy whir... More >>

• Kitano's Kid

  published June 15, 2000

  Kikujiro, the latest release from Japanese filmmaker Takeshi Kitano, will likely come as a surprise to his American fans -- possibly... More >>

• Bees and Nothingness

  published June 8, 2000

  How does a film critic -- or any film viewer -- come to terms with Matthew Barney's Cremaster films? The thirty-something Yale graduate has... More >>

• Mission: Possible

  published May 25, 2000

  Early on in Mission: Impossible 2 (or M:I-2, as the confident Paramount now calls it), hero Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruise) complains to his... More >>

• A Tribute to Lovable Losers

  published May 18, 2000

  Woody Allen is back on screen in Small Time Crooks, a bittersweet comedy that in many ways could have been lifted straight from the... More >>

• In the Company of Men

  published May 18, 2000

  When stars get popular enough (or win enough Oscars), they get to call their own shots. Thus we have The Big Kahuna, the debut... More >>

• Four Square

  published May 11, 2000

  Digital video is poised to become a major factor in commercial filmmaking, and Time Code, the new feature from Mike Figgis... More >>

• Cash Poor

  published April 13, 2000

  Where the Money Is is Hollywood's latest attempt at a geezer vehicle -- in this case, for Paul Newman. Despite his unassailable... More >>

• A Wild Ride

  published April 6, 2000

  Titus, Julie Taymor's gorgeous film version of Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus, may be the most lavish release of last... More >>

• Pie in the Sky

  published March 9, 2000

  The first thought you have while watching The Next Best Thing is "Was Madonna always this bad an actress?" It's a question... More >>

• Gate of Hell

  published March 9, 2000

  Three decades after Rosemary's Baby, two decades after The Tenant, and after a series of five non-horror films, Roman Polanski... More >>

• Red Alert

  published January 20, 2000

  In Cradle Will Rock, his third directorial outing, Tim Robbins takes on an almost insurmountably ambitious project: the re-creation... More >>

• The Man Who Would Be Killed

  published January 13, 2000

  Director Chen Kaige is best known in the U.S. for Farewell, My Concubine, the most successful Chinese production ever released here. As... More >>