"Calle 54" A loving, "Buena Vista Social Club"-style hymn to the rhythm and life of salsa
By Charles Taylor [May 10, 2001]

"Career Girls" Mike Leigh's 'Career Girls' takes a sharp look at the scarred, vital lives of two old friends.
By Laura Miller [September 15, 1997]

"Cast Away" Melancholy! Eternal solitude! Tom Hanks and Robert "Forrest Gump" Zemeckis reunite for the year's most unlikely blockbuster.
By Stephanie Zacharek [December 22, 2000]

"Cats & Dogs" Puppets and computer graphics allow haughty felines and lovable canines to battle for control of the universe in this giddy romp.
By Stephanie Zacharek [July 4, 2001]

"The Caveman's Valentine" Director Kasi Lemmons might have a great movie in her, but this Samuel Jackson-led psychological thriller isn't it.
By Stephanie Zacharek [March 2, 2001]

"Cecil B. DeMented" John Waters exploits the Patty Hearst story for a billet-doux to movies good and bad, schlock and art.
By Stephanie Zacharek [August 11, 2000]

"Celebrity" Star dreck: Woody Allen packs 'Celebrity' with celebrities, proving that his mockery of our fame-obsessed culture is just a put-on. Reviewed by Charles Taylor
Charles Taylor [November 20, 1998]

"The Cell" Tarsem Singh's opulent serial-killer thriller descends into special-effects hell.
By Andrew O'Hehir [August 18, 2000]

"Center Stage" Nicholas Hytner, director of "The Madness of King George," takes a mild-mannered genre picture and turns it into a rare entertainment.
By Stephanie Zacharek [May 15, 2000]

"Charlie's Angels" Who cares about the fate of privacy, of all things, when you can watch three sexy babes stamp out crime in zip-off suits and high-heeled boots?
By Stephanie Zacharek [November 3, 2000]

"Chasing Amy" A movie review of Kevin Smith's 'Chasing Amy' (starring Ben Affleck and Joey Lauren Adams) by Charles Taylor.
By Charles Taylor [May 11, 1997]

"Chicken Run" The first feature from the creators of "Wallace and Gromit" is a plucking good time.
By Michael Sragow [June 21, 2000]

"Children of the Revolution" In the new black comedy 'Children of the Revolution,' Judy Davis plays an Australian woman who bears Stalin's child.
By Laura Miller [June 9, 1997]

"Chill Factor" Chemo-terrorists! Car crashes! Ice cream men! But not even Cuba Gooding Jr. can thaw out this late-summer dud.
By Stephanie Zacharek [September 2, 1999]

"Chocolat" The director of "The Cider House Rules" returns with Juliette Binoche, Johnny Depp and a cozy little ode to sensual and culinary pleasure.
By Charles Taylor [December 15, 2000]

"The Cider House Rules" Driven by Tobey Maguire's marvelously layered performance, Lasse Hallstrsm's old-fashioned cinematic yarn-spinning yields genuine emotion without sentimentality.
By Stephanie Zacharek [January 24, 2000]

"The Circle" In Tehran, it's frowned upon for women to smoke in public or even walk alone on the street. A beautiful Iranian film tells their story.
By Stephanie Zacharek [April 20, 2001]

"City of Angels" Laura Miller reviews 'City of Angels' directed by Brad Silberling and starring Nicholas Cage, Meg Ryan and Dennis Franz
By Laura Miller [April 10, 1998]

"A Civil Action" Director Steven Zaillian does author Jonathan Harr a great injustice with his reductionist film version of Harr's 'A Civil Action'.
By Charles Taylor [December 23, 1998]

"The Claim" Michael Winterbottom's audacious new movie triumphantly blends Thomas Hardy and "McCabe & Mrs. Miller."
By Charles Taylor [April 20, 2001]

"Clay Pigeons" Vince Vaughn is irresistible as the psycho villain in the otherwise empty Clay Pigeons.
By Andrew O'Hehir [October 2, 1998]

"Company Man" There's nothing worse than a bad farce -- except for this Cuban missile crisis comedy that wastes talent like Sigourney Weaver, John Turturro and Alan Cumming.
By Charles Taylor [March 9, 2001]

"Con Air" A review of the movie 'Con Air', directed by Simon West and starring Nicholas Cage, John Cusack, John Malkovich and Steve Buscemi, reviewed by Charles Taylor.
By Charles Taylor [July 6, 1997]

"Conspiracy Theory" In "Conspiracy Theory," Mel Gibson plays a paranoid cab driver who discovers they really are out to get him.
By Charles Taylor [September 8, 1997]

"Contact" Robin Dougherty reviews the movie 'Contact,' directed by Robert Zemeckis and starring Jodie Foster and Matthew McConaughey, based on the novel by Carl Sagan.
By Robin Dougherty [August 11, 1997]

"Contempt" Charles Taylor reviews 'Contempt,' directed by Jean-Luc Godard and starring Brigitte Bardot, Michel Piccoli, Jack Palance and Fritz Lang
By Charles Taylor [August 4, 1997]

"The Contender" It looks lurid and profane, but this gutless thriller accepts the prevailing wisdom that a politician's "character" matters.
By Charles Taylor [October 13, 2000]

"Cookie's Fortune" Easter eggs and bourbon: Charles Taylor reviews Robert Altman's new comedy, 'Cookie's Fortune'.
By Charles Taylor [April 2, 1999]

"Cop Land" Stephanie Zacharek reviews 'Cop Land' directed by James Mangold and starring Sylvester Stallone, Harvey Keitel, and Robert DeNiro.
By Stephanie Zacharek [September 15, 1997]

"Coyote Ugly" Jerry Bruckheimer's foxy vixen dance party promises sleaze, produces only PG-13 sex talk and howlingly awful pop songs.
By Stephanie Zacharek [August 4, 2000]

"Cradle Will Rock" Tim Robbins makes politics for art's sake.
By Charles Taylor [December 9, 1999]

"Crash" David Cronenberg's "Crash" hypnotically explores the intersection between sex and death.
By Robin Dougherty [April 21, 1997]

"Crazy/Beautiful" Even after losing its sexiest, tawdriest moments, this teen romance is still hotter, smarter and more fearless than its Hollywood contemporaries.
By Stephanie Zacharek [June 29, 2001]

"Crazy in Alabama" Antonio Banderas directs his wife, Melanie Griffith, in this little morsel of easily digestible nostalgia.
By Mary Elizabeth Williams [October 22, 1999]

"The Crew" Four cranky old mobsters warm up an otherwise cool month of late-summer comedies.
By Stephanie Zacharek [August 29, 2000]

"Crime and Punishment in Suburbia"Even dressed up in tabloid lighting and cut with jagged edits, this pulp nihilism never goes beyond daytime TV banality.
By Charles Taylor [September 22, 2000]

"Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon"Ang Lee's fussy art-house habits battle the dreamy beauty of the most kick-ass martial arts movie in years.
By Stephanie Zacharek [December 8, 2000]

"Cruel Intentions" The retro morality of Cruel Intentions makes for a pleasurably nasty update of Dangerous Liaisons.
By Charles Taylor [March 5, 1999]

"The Cruise" Keep it alive: In 1998, 'The Cruise,' a single documentary about one man's life on the edge, saved the spirit of independent film. By Christine Schomer.
By Christine Schomer [December 22, 1998]