Movies

Snow Day makes the alternative look better.

Mike Leigh beautifully and intimately re-creates the glory days of Gilbert and Sullivan.

The Scream trilogy closes out on a yawn.

Chen Kaige’s Chinese epic balances the historical and the intimate.

Susann biopic isn’t Great — not by the longest shot.

Frank McCourt’s memoir is brought to soggy, vivid life in Angela´s Ashes.

All’s Fiennes in love and war for this soppy but capable WWII-era drama.

Tim Robbins’s Orson Welles project bites off more than it can chew.

Girl, Interrupted can’t distinguish between crazy and normal, and its characters aren’t so sure either.

With more plot than pot, Next Friday is better than its forebear.

Magnolia is a work of brilliance . . . provided you’ve never heard of Robert Altman.