Mike Nichols

"Charlie Wilson's War" "Charlie Wilson's War"

Philip Seymour Hoffman utters one of the year's most refreshing lines in this terrific tale of political wheeling and dealing.
  • Charlie Wilson's unfinished war

    The legendary Texas congressman talks about his secret 1980s Afghan war (and its blowback), the Obama campaign and being better-looking than Tom Hanks.
  • "Closer"

    Julia Roberts and Jude Law star in Mike Nichols' coldblooded examination of modern mating.
  • The power of prophecy

    Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room.
  • 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.
  • "What Planet Are You From?"

    It's a sad day for cinema when a vibrating penis upstages a perfectly good actress.
  • Real superpower in a godless universe

    Raging tempests: Natural, cultural, political and cinematic.
  • Primary Colors

    Charles Taylor reviews 'Primary Colors,' directed by Mike Nichols and starring John Travolta, Emma Thompson and Adrian Lester.
  • The Year in Film 1997

    Salon Entertainment: Salon film critic Charles Taylor chooses the best movies of 1997.
  • Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

    Dwight Garner writes about "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for Salon's Personal Best Movies.
  • "The Graduate"

    You may have been a randy, spiteful old drunk, but at least you didn't wind up like your lover-boy -- as the '60s generation's most embarrassingly Oedipal symbol.

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