Charles Taylor

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  • How does Tom Cruise rate?

    After three decades on-screen, who should we compare him to? Redford, Cooper or Johnny Depp? My choice: Troy Donahue.
    By Charles Taylor August 5, 2004

  • "She Hate Me"

    Despite its predatory lesbians and randy studs, Spike Lee's latest effort isn't homophobic. But that doesn't mean it's good.
    By Charles Taylor July 30, 2004

  • "Intimate Strangers"

    This stylish French film about a woman who confesses her deepest marital secrets to a tax lawyer promises to be a Hitchcockian thriller -- until it fizzles weirdly out.
    By Charles Taylor July 30, 2004

  • Martyrs for the cause of journalism

    They outraged an advertiser, pissed off the publisher or fell afoul of right- or left-wing political correctness. Now these articles killed by major magazines and newspapers have found new life.
    By Charles Taylor July 26, 2004

  • "The Bourne Supremacy"

    Remember him? Matt Damon is back as everyone's favorite amnesiac former CIA assassin in one of the summer's best films.
    By Charles Taylor July 23, 2004

  • "The Door in the Floor"

    A goatish Jeff Bridges and a sex-starved Mimi Rogers. A hot Kim Basinger and her horny teen lover. So what went wrong?
    By Charles Taylor July 16, 2004

  • The passion of Elvis

    Watching Presley's "'68 Comeback Special" is a total religious experience, proving once and for all that the King was no false idol.
    By Charles Taylor July 15, 2004

  • Let's save literature from the literati

    Despite more gloom and doom on the Op-Ed pages, books have not been killed off by the "visual culture."
    By Charles Taylor July 14, 2004

  • Terrible news

    Ted Knight, Chevy Chase and now Will Ferrell have all spoofed TV news. But it's their real-life counterparts who are really funny.
    By Charles Taylor July 8, 2004

  • Force of nature

    Burning across stage and screen like a human dynamo, Marlon Brando set a standard for acting that may never be reached.
    By Charles Taylor July 2, 2004

  • "Spider-Man 2"

    Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst are back, but this sorta square Spidey movie doesn't swing.
    By Charles Taylor June 30, 2004

  • "The Notebook"

    Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams are swell, but Nick Cassavetes' paean to 1940s small-town America is just a load of hooey.
    By Charles Taylor June 25, 2004

  • "The Terminal"

    Tom Hanks plays a sort of Esperanto Everyman stuck for months at JFK Airport in what is probably the worst-directed film Steven Spielberg has ever made.
    By Charles Taylor June 18, 2004

  • "Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge"

    One of the biggest Indian movies of all time has finally reached America -- and deserves to translate into a big success here, too.
    By Charles Taylor June 17, 2004

  • The genius hits the road

    Remembering Ray Charles as a man who sang to the soul of America, played the piano like it was a woman, and got us all to joyously shake our thing.
    By Charles Taylor June 11, 2004

  • "The Candy Men" by Nile Southern

    Terry Southern's son tells the wacky tale of his dad's '60s pornographic masterpiece "Candy," whose heroine is both dirtier and more innocent than today's dead-eyed Britney nymphets.
    By Charles Taylor June 10, 2004

  • The Gipper's dark side

    Reagan played the villain in his last movie -- a cynical gangster flick called "The Killers" -- and it's a perfect antidote to the deluge of adoring media coverage.
    By Charles Taylor June 8, 2004

  • Page turners with a brain

    Dump "The Da Vinci Code" and break the "Rule of Four" -- our reading list for a hot season ventures from 1945 Barcelona to an English ghost story to a haunted Texas bureaucracy, all without insulting your intelligence.
    By Salon's critics May 29, 2004

  • Blahbusters

    Don't buy the frantic pleadings of the Hollywood media machine -- summer blockbusters have become a colossal bore.
    By Charles Taylor May 28, 2004

  • "Raising Helen"

    If you're a Christian Coalition member looking for a movie that reinforces all the homespun values you hold dear, this Kate Hudson vehicle is for you!
    By Charles Taylor May 26, 2004

  • Payback time

    It doesn't stop at Abu Ghraib. All of America is awash in violent revenge fantasies -- including me.
    By Charles Taylor May 14, 2004

  • "Strayed" ("Les égarés")

    In this French import, a Parisian family fleeing the Nazis learns the brutal lessons of surviving a war.
    By Charles Taylor May 14, 2004

  • "Valentin"

    Direct from Argentina, just in time for Mother's Day, a noisy tale of a cute kid, a crabby grandma and an absent mom.
    By Charles Taylor May 7, 2004

  • The passion of the Bush

    "The Jesus Factor" showed how the president has failed to serve either the Gospel or the Constitution.
    By Charles Taylor April 30, 2004

  • The underground Beatle

    A fantastic documentary that explains the curious, tragic life of Brian Epstein -- the man behind John, Paul, George and Ringo -- makes a rare U.S. appearance.
    By Charles Taylor April 29, 2004
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