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The images from the London bombings awakened an elemental fear that we all do our best to keep buried.
By David Thomson
July 12, 2005
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Film critic David Thomson talks about his masterly survey of movie people -- who's in, who's out and just what makes a star different from the rest of us.
By Laura Miller
December 16, 2002
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Veteran film editor Margaret Booth cut up the dreams and hopes of all the tough-guy directors and reassembled them the way she liked.
By David Thomson
November 7, 2002
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James Toback's cult classic "Fingers" is like the screen treatment of a comic book written and illustrated by the Freud boys -- Sigmund and Lucian.
By David Thomson
October 24, 2002
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She's the hottest woman still alive on "24" and I hope they use her as the sultry center of the second season.
By David Thomson
October 17, 2002
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The personal sexuality of actors and stars may be the only mystery they are actually allowed.
By David Thomson
October 10, 2002
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Reflections on Isabelle Huppert's sadomasochistic mysteries in "The Piano Teacher."
By David Thomson
October 3, 2002
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Goldie Hawn is a hot woman of a certain age who dares to possess a sex life, romantic feelings and an awareness of power and money.
By David Thomson
September 26, 2002
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Kim Hunter played a key role in molding "A Streetcar Named Desire" into a more heterosexual drama than its author intended.
By David Thomson
September 19, 2002
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Samantha Morton comes to life in a deeply introspective film suffused with intimate naturalism. Plus she lounges around in her underwear.
By David Thomson
September 12, 2002
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9/11 thoughts from Mark Crispin Miller, David Thomson, Richard Stallman and more.
By Salon staff
September 11, 2002
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Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo is ravenously sexual -- but where's her mustache?
By David Thomson
September 5, 2002
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Even as he sank into a fatal sexual morass, Bob Crane remained a blandly wholesome nice guy.
By David Thomson
August 29, 2002
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Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf is far more possessed, and thus far sexier, than Gwyneth Paltrow in "Possession."
By David Thomson
August 22, 2002
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You know Catherine Keener is trouble. But you can't stop yourself.
By David Thomson
August 8, 2002
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Thoughts on my sister-in-law's suicide.
By David Thomson
August 1, 2002
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Go to London and look at Lucian's paintings of nudes, which still contain the possibility of love.
By David Thomson
July 25, 2002
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What's Jennifer Jason Leigh doing in "The Road to Perdition" -- and why's she missing that despondent, carnal air of hers?
By David Thomson
July 18, 2002
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Steven Spielberg has never done sexy well in his films, but "Minority Report" feels wet, alive and throbbing.
By David Thomson
July 11, 2002
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"Blue Velvet" was and is an outrage. And a
masterpiece.
By David Thomson
June 6, 2002
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It's time for America to discover the knees, thighs and invention of the men who play the most erotic game in the world.
By David Thomson
May 30, 2002
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The last episode of "24" was made for Nina-ites, and for ecstatic, fulfilling perfidy.
By David Thomson
May 23, 2002
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In "Unfaithful," Diane Lane's character was simply not unhappy or desperate enough to betray her marriage by having sudden sex with another man.
By David Thomson
May 16, 2002
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George Lucas is still a virgin, and he wants his audience in the same stricken state.
By David Thomson
May 9, 2002
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What makes the movie so good, and so English, finally, is the ambivalence of Don Logan -- for this monster, this demon, this beast is also
the life force.
By David Thomson
April 25, 2002