Race to the Top: Three New Films on Black and White in America

Lakeview Terrace
Running time 110 minutes
Written by David Loughery and Howard Korder
Directed by Neil LaBute
Starring Patrick Wilson, Kerry Washington, Samuel L. Jackson

Neil LaBute’s Lakeview Terrace, from a screenplay by David Loughery and Howard Korder, based on the story by Mr. Loughery, explores our interracial malaise at Read More

Leapin’ Liman

JUMPER
RUNNING TIME 90 minutes
WRITTEN BY David S. Goyer, Jim Uhls, Simon Kinberg, Steven Gould
DIRECTED BY Doug Liman
STARRING Hayden Christensen, Samuel L. Jackson, Diane Lane

A piece of idiotic sci-fi piffle called Jumper looks like $90 billion wasted on 90 minutes of popcorn junk. Even the butter is phony.

King Phones It In

1408
Running Time 94 minutes
Directed by Mikael Håfström
Written by Stephen King
Starring John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson

1408 is the latest product canned by the cottage industry known as Stephen King, but if you go expecting a horror movie, you’ll be Read More

A Game of Hit-and-Run

Here it is: a provocative, beautifully made American thriller with a tightly controlled sense of panic, a brilliant ensemble of actors, throat-clutching tension admirably bereft of violence, and enough moral issues to keep you chewing your upper lip, lost in thought, for days. In addition to gluing you to the edge of your seat, Changing Read More

A Marriage Made at Miramax

My crystal ball is on the blink. The new Gwyneth Paltrow–Ben Affleck love story called Bounce has been under lock and key for such a long time, and Miramax made it so difficult for critics to see-usually two signals that a movie is in trouble-that I suspected it would be nothing to write home about. Read More