"The Abyss" Extras galore reveal teary breakdowns, chlorine burns and the nightmarish conditions behind this watery "Close Encounters."
By David Lazarus [12/19/00]

"Alice's Restaurant" One of the best movies of its era anticipated the end of the '60s. More than 30 years later, Arlo Guthrie still doesn't get it.
By Charles Taylor [02/01/01]

"Alien Resurrection" Icky babies, Ripley reborn and bombastic special effects, but the extras here are strictly commercial.
By Max Garrone [03/22/01]

"Alien 3" David Fincher can't decide if his movie is about survival or death and ends up with a schizophrenic mess. Sigourney Weaver just wanted more money.
By Max Garrone [03/28/01]

"Aliens" The maternal instinct meets the Vietnam War. Plus: How to make your own face-hugging space creatures.
By Max Garrone [02/14/01]

"All About My Mother" Forget about the silly interview and skimpy featurette; the best reason to see this outrageous DVD is the film itself.
By Charles Taylor [12/11/00]

"American Pie" The "unrated" version catches a teen boy and a pastry in flagrante delicious, but where are the girls?
By Stephanie Zacharek [07/20/00]

"American Graffiti" From the days before George Lucas erased his errors digitally, a treasure of ingenious '70s filmmaking that uses rock 'n' roll like a Greek chorus with a beat.
By Michael Sragow [10/13/00]

"American Movie" Chris Smith's film about a horror auteur with a dream would have made a great mockumentary, if only it weren't all true.
By Jeff Stark [04/19/01]

"American Psycho" Mary Harron's unloved monster, here with its three-way sex scene restored, is really an enigmatic and powerful work of social satire.
By Andrew O'Hehir [09/15/00]

"Any Given Sunday" What could be worse than Oliver Stone's cloddish, didactic football movie? How about six more minutes and some softball interviews?
By Max Garrone [01/30/01]

"Apocalypse Now" This may not be the ultimate package, but at least Coppola sheds some light on the picture's spectacular and eerie nighttime blaze.
By Michael Sragow [07/24/00]

"Apollo 13" The movie is a suspenseful account of a real-life near-disaster; plus a legendary astronaut tells what it's like to be (almost) lost in space.
By David Lazarus [09/01/00]

"Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery" How Austin's sausage got bitten.
By Stephanie Zacharek [01/31/01]

"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" Fat Bastard to Rob Lowe in 20 minutes of cut scenes: "You're prettier than most girls I've shagged."
By Charles Taylor [02/12/01]

"The Bachelor" and "Seven Chances" A loose remake of a Buster Keaton classic plays awkward bridesmaid to the original.
By Michael Sragow [06/19/00]

"Being John Malkovich" Spike Jonze's feature debut tells us what it's like to be inside a famous actor's brain -- and what it's like to be a marionette.
By Suzy Hansen [07/13/00]

"The Big Sleep" Humphrey Bogart and Howard Hawks get Raymond Chandler so right, who cares if the plot doesn't square?
By Michael Sragow [08/09/00]

"The Birds" Tote up all its flaws and you still reach the same conclusion: Hitchcock's ornithological thriller is simply terrifying.
By Charles Taylor [08/14/00]

"The Blair Witch Project" The film isn't as scary the second time around, but its marketing still beats the devil.
By Jeff Stark [06/15/00]

"Blazing Saddles" Mel Brooks remembers working with Richard Pryor, and a time when farting jokes were as offensive as it gets.
By Max Garrone [05/08/01]

"Blue Velvet" As disturbing and sensuous on DVD as it was in 1986 -- with a great sick joke to boot.
By Charles Taylor [06/27/00]

"The Bone Collector" There's not much depth in this serial-killer thriller, but it gets the creepy atmospherics and forensic details just right.
By Andrew O'Hehir [07/25/00]

"Bound" How sexpert Susie Bright and the "Matrix" brothers got wet making this lesbian noir.
By Stephanie Zacharek [12/05/00]

"Boys Don't Cry" Director Kimberly Peirce discusses the hazards of low-budget filmmaking and the intricacies of bringing this heartland tragedy to the screen.
By Andrew O'Hehir [08/08/00]

"Braveheart" Mel Gibson's deadly boring film, not to mention his commentary, mangles history and his fellow actors -- all for the sake of a good fight.
By Jeff Stark [01/05/01]

"The Bride of Frankenstein" There's much more to James Whale's 1935 masterpiece than Elsa Lanchester's hair-raising hairdo.
By Andrew O'Hehir [07/21/00]

"The Bridge on the River Kwai" Two takes on David Lean's epic masterpiece show how vastly different Hollywood's idea of great moviemakers was in 1957.
By Michael Sragow [01/25/01]

"Buena Vista Social Club" Wim Wenders gave the world an affecting documentary about terrific musicians. Now if he'd only stop talking.
By Jeff Stark [06/22/00]

"Bull Durham" On the DVD of this baseball classic, director Ron Shelton reveals why he thinks that famous "long, slow, deep, wet kisses" speech he wrote is baloney.
By Michael Sragow [06/29/00]

"Cabaret" Naughty sex, kinky undies and singing Nazis.
By Andrew O'Hehir [11/17/00]

"Camelot" Forget the knights -- bring on the nighties! Oh, for the days when movie tie-ins included negligees.
By Stephanie Zacharek [11/15/00]

"Casablanca" Rick and Ilsa look better than ever, but why are the DVD extras so skimpy?
By Andrew O'Hehir [07/10/00]

"Charade" Stanley Donen's classy crime caper has charm, wit -- and Cary Grant.
By Michael Sragow [07/05/00]

"Charlie's Angels" First-time director McG spins out a hilarious list of tongue-in-cheek filmic homages in his commentary to this "pop-a-wheelie" candy-colored thrill ride of an action movie.
By Jeff Stark [04/12/01]

"Chinatown" The extras on Roman Polanski's noir classic feature "as little as possible," in J.J. Gittes' famous phrase.
By Andrew O'Hehir [02/26/01]

"Chuck & Buck" How the "insiders" made a creepy, compassionate minor landmark of indie cinema on no budget.
By Andrew O'Hehir [02/05/01]

"The Cell" This visual explosion could have been a radically great film -- then the director found out it's all about the Jennifer.
By Max Garrone [03/12/01]

"The Cider House Rules" In adapting his novel for the screen, John Irving wanted the story to be trimmer than in his book -- as long as he was the one wielding the knife.
By Charles Taylor [10/27/00]

"The Conversation" Coppola divulges the dream that informed his classic paranoid thriller.
By Stephanie Zacharek [02/06/01]

"Coyote Ugly" Hot girls dance and dump water on themselves -- now with director's commentary, behind-the-bar footage and a chat with the starving actresses.
By Suzy Hansen [02/21/01]

"The Craft" How do you make a fun teenage sorceress movie realistic? Hire a Wiccan. Plus: Bad-girl actress Fairuza Balk really is a witch.
By Stephanie Zacharek [01/08/01]

"Das Boot" War is hell; war underwater is worse. A new version restores every shake, rattle and roll of the German submarine epic.
By Max Garrone [03/07/01]

"Dead Again" Kenneth Branagh tells us how he left Shakespearean clues in this most romantic -- and thrilling -- of romantic thrillers.
By Stephanie Zacharek [07/31/00]

"Deliverance" An extra documentary suggests James Dickey wanted someone else to make his movie; give him credit for not squealing like a pig.
By Michael Sragow [12/13/00]

"Diabolique" Did a Frenchman scare Hitchcock into making "Psycho"?
By Michael Sragow [08/31/00]

"Die Hard" John McTiernan's thrill ride started an avalanche of knockoffs, but there's still no beating the original.
By David Lazarus [08/30/00]

"The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie" Sex in the bushes and a pot-smoking military liven up Buñuel's masterful farce. Plus: A new doc shows the director mixing cocktails!
By Andrew O'Hehir [03/15/01]

"D.O.A." A murdered man tracks his own killer in this ahead-of-its-time 1950 noir thriller.
By Michael Sragow [08/01/00]

"Double Indemnity" Barbara Stanwyck plays a sensual death dealer in Billy Wilder's darkly shaded masterpiece.
By Michael Sragow [09/22/00]

"Double Jeopardy" Ashley Judd plays a revenge machine in a size 2 dress -- what's not to love?
By Charles Taylor [06/16/00]

"Dr. No: Special Edition" James Bond fights bad guys, saves the world and has lots of sex -- but in this one he does all of it better.
By David Lazarus [11/21/00]

"Dumb & Dumber" Peter and Bobby Farrelly take low humor to a higher ground with the sheer exuberance of their no-brainer gags.
By Charles Taylor [08/03/00]

"Easy Rider" Dennis Hopper and Peter Fonda go back to a time when a kilo of good pot was a budgeted movie expense.
By Max Garrone [04/16/01]

"Elizabeth" How the Virgin Queen, from the stone castle's point of view, turned herself immortal.
By Andrew O'Hehir [01/24/01]

"The End of the Affair" The nakedness of Neil Jordan's moody, oddly magical love story goes beyond the skin.
By Michael Sragow [08/07/00]

"Enter the Dragon" Bruce Lee's finest hour, modeled on a comic strip, features dialogue dubbed by Charlie Chan's No. 1 son.
By David Lazarus [09/13/00]

"Erin Brockovich" A fascinating cache of deleted scenes proves Steven Soderbergh's talent for knowing when less is more and when it's merely less.
By Michael Sragow [11/06/00]

"Excalibur" A lush retelling of the King Arthur legend gets some sharp edges from a real-life clash between two of its stars.
By David Lazarus [09/07/00]

"Eyes Wide Shut" Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman talk about the late Stanley Kubrick on the sumptuous DVD release of the most misunderstood film in recent memory.
By Bill Wyman [07/11/00]

"Fast Times at Ridgemont High" Upon the DVD release of the classic high school comedy, Cameron Crowe and Amy Heckerling talk about the X rating its teenage nudity earned.
By Bill Wyman [06/26/00]

"The Filth and the Fury" The Sex Pistols couldn't find enough treasure in their vaults. Plus: A second documentary that doesn't reduce punk to a slogan.
By Jeff Stark [04/26/01]

"Final Destination" Audiences wanted to see more death: How a horror flick was turned from a potential failure into "the perfect soufflé."
By David Lazarus [10/12/00]

"Free Tibet" Half flimsy documentary, half unexceptional concert movie -- but Beck and Björk are priceless.
By Jeff Stark [08/24/00]

"Freeway" Director Matthew Bright admits his weakness for white cotton panties in the commentary for this brash "artsploitation" flick.
By Stephanie Zacharek [02/28/01]

"Galaxy Quest" A special toilet for Alan Rickman? Deleted scenes make this "Star Trek" satire even better on second viewing.
By Michael Sragow [06/14/00]

"Ghost in the Shell" How a team of animators made this action feature faster, louder and more kinetic.
By Max Garrone [04/17/01]

"Girl, Interrupted" If you think you see leaves tied to the trees in James Mangold's psychiatric-hospital drama, you're not going nuts.
By Jeff Stark [10/03/00]

"Gladiator" Never mind the slew of extras and all that Roman history -- Russell Crowe and all of his "massives" are far more exciting.
By Charles Taylor [01/11/01]

"Gone in 60 Seconds" Super-producer Jerry Bruckheimer on his genius: "I do it to entertain people." So where are all the car chases?
By David Lazarus [01/09/01]

"The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly" Extras include 14 minutes left out of Sergio Leone's vision of the mythic American West but, unfortunately, not the movie's original Italian.
By Max Garrone [02/15/01]

"The Graduate" Dustin Hoffman explains his method, his sequel and other notes behind this sweeping indictment of adulthood -- and swoony vision of triumphant youth.
By Michael Sragow [01/10/01]

"The Green Mile" Stephen King thought the script made from his serial novel was the best film adaptation he'd ever read. But that doesn't make the movie any better.
By David Lazarus [02/08/01]

"Gun Shy" A neurotic DEA agent and a goombah Buddha team up in the best and funniest American comedy you haven't seen this year.
By Charles Taylor [11/16/00]

"The Guns of Navarone" On-the-set friction caused by a red undershirt? Competition between actors only enhanced this thrilling and cathartic adventure classic.
By Michael Sragow [09/27/00]

"Hard Boiled" John Woo's knockout cops-and-gangsters classic, plus a master class in Hong Kong action filmmaking.
By Bill Wyman [06/23/00]

"The Harder They Come" Perry Henzell's gleeful rabble-rouser about a reggae outlaw returns with some of its original luster restored -- and then there's that killer soundtrack.
By Michael Sragow [11/20/00]

"High Fidelity" Deleted scenes reveal the shocking fact that "Let's Get It On" didn't make the Top Five All-Time Great Songs.
By Andrew O'Hehir [10/06/00]

"House on Haunted Hill" The deleted stuff, including a corporate shark in Manolo Blahniks, is the best thing about this silly horror remake.
By Stephanie Zacharek [01/19/01]

"The Hurricane" Denzel Washington is stellar as Rubin Carter; too bad the story around him lapses into predictable drama.
By Suzy Hansen [07/27/00]

"Independence Day" If you like 'em big and stupid, you can't argue with larger-than-life patriotism, exploding alien spaceships and a homage to "Planet of the Apes."
By Jeff Stark [08/29/00]

"The Insider" Part of the genius of Michael Mann's muckracking drama is the casting of Russell Crowe as a thickset, middle-aged tobacco industry whistle-blower.
By Charles Taylor [08/10/00]

"Interview With the Vampire" Never mind the homoerotic text. Here's a little dish on the "extraordinary game" between icy Tom Cruise and soulful Brad Pitt.
By Andrew O'Hehir [11/27/00]

"The Iron Giant" Even against the warmer, rounder tones of traditional animation, Brad Bird's computer-generated metal man practically breathes.
By Stephanie Zacharek [10/17/00]

"It Happened One Night" On a glorious transfer of the great screwball comedy, every little detail comes into focus -- even Claudette Colbert's dark, hazy nipples.
By Stephanie Zacharek [03/14/01]

"Jaws" Twenty-five years ago, a young director set out to make audiences believe an outlandishly frightening shark tale. They bit.
By Eric Boehlert [07/26/00]

"L.A. Confidential" The extras present Los Angeles in all its glittering, sometimes-shady glory, a mythical land of movies, sun and sand.
By Max Garrone [11/03/00]

"The Last Temptation of Christ" Martin Scorsese's life-size religious portrait really was scandalous, but not because Jesus and Mary Magdalene had sex.
By Andrew O'Hehir [03/06/01]

"Léon" ("The Professional") Uncut, Luc Besson's controversial thriller makes perfect sense -- and it has a softly beating heart.
By Charles Taylor [08/28/00]

"The Limey" Steven Soderbergh talks about the innate decency of the title character in his fractured art-house crime thriller.
By Stephanie Zacharek [06/28/00]

"Local Hero" Al Gore's favorite film, a sweet and off-kilter Scottish comedy, is no "Boys Town" -- and that's a good thing.
By Charles Taylor [10/04/00]

"The Lost World: Jurassic Park" The digital sound makes the critters even scarier, but no number of dazzling extras can ease the mean-spiritedness of Steven Spielberg's dino sequel.
By David Lazarus [11/13/00]

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