Subject: Sam Mendes

• Reel Life

  March 24, 2008

• Cumming Up

  Is he a writer, director, actor or...sex symbol? Um, yes--and more

  June 21, 2001

• Revolutionary Road

  January 1, 2009

• Come to This Cabaret

  A savagely demented emcee overcomes false notes to conjure the proper nightclub despair.

  February 14, 2002

• Summer Film Preview

  June 4, 2009

• The Lookout

  Joseph Gordon-Levitt awes again in this character-driven theft thriller.

  March 29, 2007

• The Year in Film

  From dirty jokes and soldiers to penguins and gays, we made our preferences known.

  December 29, 2005

• Killing Time

  In the profound Jarhead, a soldier can be his own worst enemy.

  November 3, 2005

• No More Wussies

  Or, why Tom Hanks isn't Steve Guttenberg

  March 25, 2004

• The Winter of Our Discontent

  Rose Troche uses the Altman method to reveal more suburban discomfort.

  March 13, 2003

• Ultra-Violence

  Gangster No. 1 paints a bloody good picture of a soulless British thug.

  August 29, 2002

• Sullivan's Travels

  Things are not always as they seem on the complex Road to Perdition.

  July 11, 2002

• A Sport for Good Sports

  The stately game of cricket is winning young converts.

  March 28, 2002

• Reeling in the Year

  From South Park to Pokémon, 1999 was almost an American beauty.

  December 30, 1999

• The Way We Live Now

  American Beauty takes a daring look at the suburban underbelly.

  September 23, 1999

• Away We Go

  June 11, 2009