As an aging courtesan, Michelle Pfeiffer brings beauty to this Colette adaptation -- but can she bring heat?
By Stephanie Zacharek Jun 26, 2009
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The Berlin International Film Festival offers a break from Starbucks-style cinema, and even Renée Zellweger gives a good performance.
By Stephanie Zacharek
February 13, 2009
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This luminous, magical movie, based on the Neil Gaiman novel, will dazzle even the fantasy-film phobic.
By Stephanie Zacharek
August 10, 2007
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John Travolta is no Divine. And this shiny musical just doesn't have the crazy, messy charm of John Waters' original.
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 20, 2007
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Susan Sarandon, that is. And Sigourney Weaver and Jessica Lange and Debra Winger and the rest of the '80s Hollywood stars who are so much sexier than the bottle-blond Sarahs and Gwyneths and Camerons of today.
By Laura Warrell
October 1, 2003
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In her remarkable and unsentimental new memoir, "Like Family: Growing Up in Other People's Houses," Paula McLain recalls a tumultuous childhood in the foster care system.
By Nell Bernstein
April 3, 2003
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Decadent Fassbinder classics, great roles for Michelle Pfeiffer and Susan Sarandon, the smell of chlorine, yacht racing and another Eddie Murphy flop.
March 11, 2003
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Richly stylized performances from Michelle Pfeiffer and Renée Zellweger fuel a delicious melodrama of woman's inhumanity to woman.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 11, 2002
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Jacko's love ballad inspired by water balloon fight with kids. Plus: Michelle Pfeiffer, Ashley Judd, Jennifer Aniston, aka Jennifer Pitt, and more.
By Amy Reiter
February 1, 2002
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His Glovedness can't give Mr. Mouth a rest; Michelle Pfeiffer on itchy latex. Plus: "Austin Powers, the Man With the Golden Member"?
By Amy Reiter
January 29, 2002
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Sean Penn disgraces himself in this hideously manipulative melodrama about a retarded man's battle to keep his daughter.
By Charles Taylor
January 4, 2002
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Mark Hamill strikes back ... at Ewan McGregor. Plus: Ben Affleck and Courtney Love, Tom Cruise vs. Chad Slater and more.
Read by Amy Reiter
September 4, 2001
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Natasha Lyonne lets Mr. Mouth run loose in jail. Plus: Jennifer says Brad can sleep with Michelle Pfeiffer "in a minute"!
By Amy Reiter
August 30, 2001
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Radio station eats its words; Dubya meets "Survivor's" Richard, talks rats, potty habits; Isabella Rossellini's embarrassing underwear. Plus: Whitney Houston really has a problem now!
By Amy Reiter
September 26, 2000
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Claudia Schiffer gets a big, creepy proposition; Brad Pitt's stalker evades police; and more. Plus: Being a Spielberg.
By Amy Reiter
July 25, 2000
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Sure, it's a shameless supernatural thriller, but the showmanship -- and Michelle Pfeiffer -- comes through in the clutch.
By Stephanie Zacharek
July 21, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Thursday, July 20, 2000
By Joyce Millman
July 20, 2000
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Salon's TV picks for Tuesday, July 18, 2000
By Joyce Millman
July 18, 2000
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Sorry, folks, the trailer for "What Lies Beneath" really was the only turn-on. To see the sexy Pfeiffer in a full-length film, rent "Scarface."
By David Thomson
July 14, 2000
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When a first-time author has his portrait taken by Annie Leibovitz, it changes his life -- at least while she's clicking the shutter.
By Brett Leveridge
April 7, 2000
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Steve Kloves, screenwriter for Curtis Hanson's new "Wonder Boys," takes on Hollywood's hottest property -- boy wonder Harry Potter.
By Michael Sragow
February 24, 2000
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This Bruce Willis-Michelle Pfeiffer breakup story doesn't have one.
By Stephanie Zacharek
October 15, 1999
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The creator of "Ally McBeal" and "The Practice" owns prime time. How many cat fights, dwarf lawyers and middlebrow sermons can we take?
By Joyce Millman
September 20, 1999
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With roles as diverse as Catwoman and Madame de Tourvel, she has racked up one critically acclaimed performance after another.
By Charles Taylor
May 25, 1999
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Andrew O'Hehir reviews 'The Deep End of the Ocean'.
By Andrew O'Hehir
March 12, 1999
"Chéri"
French lovers and Iraq vets
"Stardust"
"Hairspray"
Desperately seeking Susan
"White Oleander" unplugged
"White Oleander"
"I Am Sam"
"What Lies Beneath"
Not nasty enough
Glenn Greenwald
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