By Andrew Sarris 8/27/01 12:00am

They Don’t Make 40′s Films Like They Used To

Woody Allen’s The

Curse of the Jade Scorpion made many people laugh during the screening I

attended, mostly from the ferocity of the insults exchanged between Mr. Allen’s

C.W. Briggs, an insurance investigator circa 1940, and Helen Hunt’s Betty Ann

Fitzgerald, the firm’s bossy efficiency expert. As it happens, I didn’t even

smile once, but Read More

By Rex Reed 8/13/01 12:00am

This Nicole Will Haunt Tom

After the awful Eyes Wide Shut and the pretentious, hysterical Moulin Rouge , Nicole Kidman redeems herself with The Others , looking as patrician and translucent (and wearing the same wonderfully straight, uncluttered hairstyle) as she did in her best film to date, To Die For . Tom Cruise co-produced The Others , and the Read More