Joey Lauren Adams

It seemed like a nightmare become real -- a string of random shootings in the Washington, D.C., area in October 2002 that gripped the nation with fear and confusion. That the perpetrators, once captured, turned out to be a former soldier and a teenage boy...

YOU WILL MEET A TALL DARK STRANGER (2010) * *1/2 (B-) Directed by Woody Allen Starring Josh Brolin, Anthony Hopkins, Gemma Jones, Antonio Banderas, Freida Pinto, Lucy Punch, Naomi Watts, Pauline Collins Narrated by and Zak Orth Sony//Rated R//Drama//99...

It's hard to talk about "The Break-Up," which stars Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston as an uncoupling couple bound together by a condo, without getting a couple of words on Vaughn and Aniston's real-life romance, Aniston's recent real-life break-up and...

It's tough to accurately rate a movie that's good in a lot of ways but grating in so many others. Such is the case with "Come Early Morning," a slip of a film starring Ashley Judd. Artfully shot and excruciatingly honest, the movie has great intentions...

Friday June 25, 1999      Ever since he made a surprising success of "The Wedding Singer" last year, the media has been beside itself about the presence of not one but two Adam Sandlers: the sweet-natured, gentle romantic of that film and the more, shall...

Friday September 29, 2000      You can tell by its mock-epic title, one that hints at heart-stirring endeavors. You can tell by the advertising material, with its soft-focus image of star Denzel Washington looking heroically off into the distance. You...

In Steve Anderson's droll "The Big Empty," Jon Favreau's aspiring actor John Person, after a decade in Hollywood, has but two commercials and three segments in a canceled series to his credit. A sweet-natured teddy bear of a man, John nevertheless refuses...

James Toback's "Harvard Man" is a fast and clever con-gone-wrong comedy that reflects the writer-director's characteristic blend of the intellectual and the criminal. But it lacks anyone to care about--even the repellent characters are less than...

Friday October 20, 1995      If the Sundance Institute or the AFI ever offers a course advising directors of successful first films what to avoid the second time around, "Mallrats" could be at the heart of the curriculum.      Written and directed by...

Friday April 11, 1997      Kevin Smith's "Chasing Amy" is a little movie with big truths, a work of such fierce intelligence and emotional honesty that it blows away the competition when it comes to contemporary romantic comedy.      It could be a...