Bill Gallo

This time, it’s the middle-aged ladies of a small English town who bare all for laughs.

With The Barbarian Invasions, Denys Arcand’s cinematic alter ego goes out with a bang.

It’s Kingsley versus Connelly in a heartrending real-estate battle.

Cold Mountain sets the new standard for Civil War films.

The Cooler, somewhat unbelievably, asks us to swallow a Las Vegas fairy tale.

Silly Caucasian boy Tom Cruise likes to play with Samurai swords.

A dirty journo gets busted in Shattered Glass.

This ain’t your rabbi’s Holy Land.

One man’s deceptions help to highlight our own flaws in The Human Stain.

Cuba goes over the top in the mawkish Radio.

Cuba and Beyoncé fire up the soul of the South.