Bullitt earned its reputation for Steve McQueen’s lengthy car chase through the hills of San Francisco, and the sequence does have a gritty, low-tech authenticity. Yet there’s more to the movie than squealing wheels. A crime picture embroiled in the detail work of law enforcement, the film stars McQueen as the definitive workaholic cop. His

It might look like a musical and talk like a musical, but stars Jodie Foster and Chow Yun-Fat don’t sing at all in this latest version of the story that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein’s The King and I. What you also won’t find is a lot of intellectual depth, as director Andy Tennant (Ever After)

Like Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York, this Brazilian film chronicles a community that succumbs to chaos – specifically the Rio de Janeiro slum of the title. Unlike Gangs, however, City of God juggles with a fleet sense of flair the very things that bogged Scorsese’s opus down: a huge cast of characters, an expansive

The absurdities of Enough – in which Jennifer Lopez plays a browbeaten wife who becomes a trained fighter in hopes of killing her abusive husband – are endless, but what’s most galling about the film is the way it patronizes the issue at hand. Enough wants to be both a cathartic, cinematic punch and a

Camille, in which Greta Garbo plays a society woman on the prowl for a rich husband in 1847 Paris, features a parade of jewel-bedecked gowns, yet when director George Cukor cuts to a close-up of his star, everything else fades. In medium or long shot Garbo is your average actress – even, at certain angles,

This is a classic British spy yarn, equally rife with intrigue and tweed jackets. Dougray Scott stars as a World War II code-breaker whose brief, doomed affair with a sultry blond may have led to a massive security breach. When his former lover goes missing, he teams up with her neighbor (Kate Winslet) to discover

The battle lines are clearly drawn in this independent drama – brainy academics versus artistic free spirits – and writer-director Lisa Cholodenko has no intention of blurring them. Christian Bale plays a medical student who transfers with his fiancee (Kate Beckinsale) to Los Angeles, where their relationship is challenged by his bohemian mother (Frances McDormand).

Mercy certainly surrounds the title heroine of this eye-opening independent drama, which charts a Colombian girl’s odyssey from factory labor to drug smuggling to the streets of New York City. To survive what she does takes something from above. Oscar nominee Catalina Sandino Moreno plays Maria as a stubborn and willful firebrand, ultimately making the

Charming scene-stealer Paul Bettany (A Beautiful Mind) stars with Kirsten Dunst in this romance set during the title tennis tournament, and something is severely amiss in the pairing. It’s probably rooted in their age difference – though Dunst manages a semblance of adulthood in the Spider-Man films, most often she comes across as a giggling,

Set amid the Scottish shipping canals of the 1950s, Young Adam stars Ewan McGregor as a drifter floating from one heartless affair to the next. All actors who thrive on their likability seem destined to try at least one thoroughly unlikable role, and McGregor has found a fascinating one here.