Jonathan Kaplan

3½ stars (out of four) "Sunshine" pulls a stern, gripping variation on the old David Letterman joke, the one about President Bush responding to a heat wave by ordering an attack on the sun. Director Danny Boyle, whose feature film career got off to a...

In Guatemala City this time, about 30 miles from Antigua, I saw a convention center, high-rise hotels and two sparkling new shopping centers. But a few blocks away, I watched a man herd goats through city streets, stopping to milk them when passersby or...

Bill Clinton slept here. He shopped a few blocks away. He had dinner around the corner and down the street. Everywhere I turned, it seemed, I saw fading photos of the former president smiling into the camera as he shook hands with a beaming proprietor. I...

Top honors from the Writers Guild of America went to the screenwriters of "Gosford Park" and "A Beautiful Mind" on Saturday night, adding momentum to both films' screenplay bids at the Academy Awards. Julian Fellowes won the best original screenplay...

In "Bully," photographer-turned-filmmaker Larry Clark brings alive so compellingly the aimless, brutal existence of a group of Florida teenagers that it becomes too easy to accept the film's gratuitous and distracting nudity and fairly graphic sex as part...

"Gosford Park" and "A Beautiful Mind" were the feature film winners Saturday night at the 54th annual Writers Guild of America Awards. Episodes of "The Sopranos" and "Everybody Loves Raymond" took home awards for TV series writing. Julian Fellowes won...

Friday August 13, 1999      The first 20 minutes of "Brokedown Palace" promises an exciting and suspenseful adventure. Two lifelong friends, Alice (Claire Danes) and Darlene (Kate Beckinsale), in a small Midwestern town, are graduating from high school...