Linda Fiorentino

If the highly original, wild-and-crazy Sin City doesn't look or feel like a regular movie, that's because it isn't. "That's what makes it so unique," rebel director Robert Rodriguez says in an interview in Los Angeles. "It doesn't feel like a movie. I...

3 stars (out of 4) Pro wrestler The Rock (real name: Dwayne Johnson), star of the ridiculous but highly profitable barbarian epic "The Scorpion King," is back with a second major-studio vehicle, "The Rundown." And this time, he scores at more than just...

We know, we know. For some people, Valentine's Day brings roses, chocolates and champagne. For others, it's an all-day ignore-it-if-you-can heartache, or some degree of unhappiness in between. It's unfair, it's high or low, it's agony or ecstasy, it's...

Joy Ride," a sly and scary thriller-chiller, is the latest from John Dahl, maestro of neo-noir, and it is terrific escapist fare, stylish, outrageous and compelling. Many have tried but few have been able to draw upon the sardonic fatalism of classic noir...

If you want to see how close computers can come to replicating humans on screen -- and how far they still have to go -- take a look at "Final Fantasy: The Spirits Within," which blurs the lines between live-action and animation, movies and computer games,...

The bearded, heavyset guy who walks into a darkened editing studio and starts shoving the two big couches back into alignment looks like Kevin Smith, the writer-actor-director-cult hero beloved for his vulgar, cockeyed yet sweetly human dissections of...

Yes, this summer you'll have the chance to see a lot of movies, even more than last year, as the studios try to build on last summer's record-breaking grosses while the multiplexes provide more and more screens for them to do so. Have at it. As always,...

Friday February 23, 1996      "Unforgettable" is an unfortunate title, for this over-the-top techno-thriller is likely to become one of director John Dahl's least memorable movies.      The problem is that Bill Geddie's script has a way-out gimmick:...

Friday October 13, 1995      Watching "Jade" is such a hollow experience it's hard to work up the energy to dismiss it. A movie where the car chases have more personality than the people, its monotone acting and recycled plot make one wonder, not for the...

Friday November 1, 1996      There's an actor's adage about never working with kids or animals, and it might also have taken into account Bill Murray, a scene-stealer of the first rank, whose George Sanders-meets-Joe E. Brown screen persona also makes...

Friday September 26, 1997      For a filmmaker to use the Hindenburg as a recurring motif, he might as well call his movie "Kicked in the Head." It's like saying, "Go ahead. Hit me."      If you insist.      "Kicked in the Head" is director-writer...

Go ahead, admit what you've always suspected: A certain percentage of people met in daily life are so strange, so out-and-out weird, they have to be aliens from another universe. Now, at last, comes a major motion picture that dares to tell you it's all...