Annette Bening

  • "Running With Scissors"

    Alec Baldwin just might break your heart in this sympathetic adaptation of Augusten Burroughs' bestselling memoir.
    By Stephanie Zacharek October 20, 2006

  • "Being Julia"

    Annette Bening plays a great actress in Istvan Szabo's resolute charmer -- and proves she is one, too.
    By Stephanie Zacharek October 22, 2004

  • The stars can't help it

    Gina Gershon wants to pull your chain. Plus: Billy Bob Thornton's strange compulsions; Chicago alderman's way is not Hugh Hefner's; and Monica Lewinsky and Jenny Craig, still an item?
    By Amy Reiter April 12, 2000

  • Look out! Here comes a sound bite!

    Being at the Academy Awards has a strange effect on the attendees. Some are moved to eloquence, some to idiocy, while others become just plain insufferable.
    By Amy Reiter March 27, 2000

  • Oscars 2000

    Untethered hooters! Suave cocksmiths! But even Billy Crystal and Hilary Swank couldn't save a crushingly boring show.
    By Cintra Wilson March 27, 2000

  • Mike Nichols, what planet are you from?

    In his latest dissection of the gender gap, the director of the great "Carnal Knowledge" trades earnest sexual consideration for a cheap, vibrating sight gag.
    By Virginia Vitzthum March 21, 2000

  • Warren Beatty

    The ambitious and radical star -- actor, producer, director -- crafted a remarkable and uncompromising slate of mainstream movies.
    By Stephanie Zacharek March 20, 2000

  • "What Planet Are You From?"

    It's a sad day for cinema when a vibrating penis upstages a perfectly good actress.
    By Stephanie Zacharek March 3, 2000

  • Annette Bening: Once you start having on-screen sex, it isn't embarrassing anymore

    The "American Beauty" star should share her on-screen sex tips with "The Sopranos'" Alicia Witt.
    By Amy Reiter February 22, 2000

  • Courtesy flush, please!

    Extra! Extra! Put the seat down! Senate reporters forced to use coed loo; "American Pie" man Don McLean gets goopy over Madonna. Plus: The descent of man continues -- Carlos Santana announces his own clothing line.
    By Amy Reiter February 17, 2000

  • "Beauty" pageant

    Oscar nominations for suburban satire and Denzel Washington; "Mr. Ripley" and Jim Carrey snubbed.
    By Andrew O'Hehir February 16, 2000

  • Madonna saves Gwyneth from evil drug doom!

    Ms. Ray of Light preaches to the lithe one; the rigors of stardom: Annette Bening threatens to do herself in if she has to act again; lessons on lesbian kissing from Sarah Michelle Gellar. Plus: Scary Spice resorts to the Ph-word!
    By Amy Reiter January 5, 2000

  • Beautiful dreamer

    "End of the Affair" director Neil Jordan talks about sex, Catholicism and why "God is the greatest imaginary being of all time."
    By Michael Sragow December 9, 1999

  • "American Beauty"

    Kevin Spacey keeps a biting suburban satire from eating itself alive.
    By Andrew O'Hehir September 15, 1999

  • My dinner with Bulworth

    The Minnesota adman who helped Jesse Ventura become governor advises Warren Beatty on how he might claim the White House.
    By Jake Tapper September 2, 1999

  • In Dreams

    With echoes of 'The Silence of the Lambs,' 'Nightmare on Elm Street' and 'Psycho,' Neil Jordan's 'In Dreams' is less than the sum of its parts.
    By Andrew O'Hehir January 15, 1999
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