Action Movies

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  • "The Way of the Gun"

    A new entrant in the scuzzbags - with - guns genre limps onto the screen in a disappointing directorial debut from the writer of "The Usual Suspects."
    By Mary Elizabeth Williams September 8, 2000

  • "The Art of War"

    A surprisingly enjoyable grade-B blockbuster, part Hong Kong action blowout and part philosophical potboiler.
    By Andrew O'Hehir August 25, 2000

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, June 20, 2000
    By Joyce Millman June 20, 2000

  • "M:I-2"

    Director John Woo's pyrotechnics and the spark between Tom Cruise and Thandie Newton can't redeem a strangely impersonal actioner.
    By Charles Taylor May 24, 2000

  • "U-571"

    Damn the torpedoes! Damn the formulaic modern American action movie!
    By Charles Taylor April 21, 2000

  • The unbearable lightness of Schwarzenegger

    Film critics struggle to review "The End of Days" and still retain their indie cred. Plus: The AIDS crisis in Africa and one writer's desperate attempt to get a job at Maxim.
    By Jenn Shreve December 6, 1999

  • "The World Is Not Enough"

    God save James Bond.
    By Charles Taylor November 19, 1999

  • Real Life Rock Top 10

    By Greil Marcus October 4, 1999

  • "Three Kings"

    The stylish, almost hallucinatory war movie promotes director David O. Russell from indie grunt to Hollywood sharpshooter.
    By Andrew O'Hehir October 1, 1999

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Sept. 23, 1999
    By Joyce Millman September 23, 1999

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for
    Weekend, Sept. 17-19, 1999
    By Joyce Millman September 17, 1999

  • Blue Glow

    Salon's TV picks for Thursday, Sept. 16, 1999
    By Joyce Millman September 16, 1999

  • An uncivil "Action"

    Fox's raunchy, risky movie industry sitcom opens big -- and it just might have legs
    By Joyce Millman September 13, 1999

  • "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 3, 1999

  • Short attention spawn

    With its myriad action movie references, "The Matrix" is a masterful sci-fi stew.
    By Andrew O'Hehir April 2, 1999

  • John Woo

    With its wacky face-switching premise and delirious action scenes, John Woo's 'Face/Off' (starring Nicolas Cage and John Travolta) is the summer's best blockbuster.
    By Stephanie Zacharek July 27, 1997

  • "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

  • Gentleman with a gun

    John Woo, director of "Face/Off" and super-violent, ultra-stylish Hong Kong "blood operas," talks about the elegance of Nicolas Cage and John Travolta, his childhood dream of becoming a minister and why he loves his villains.
    By Jennie Yabroff June 27, 1997
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