All articles by Joe Lozito

The magnetic Tilda Swinton turns in one of the best performances of the year in an otherwise melodramatic tale of one mother’s harrowing attempt to protect her son from the law.

It’s nice to know that ‘Jaws’ can be secure in its place in the Pantheon of great shark movies.

Sometime after the debacle that was ‘Godzilla,’ director Roland Emmerich obviously came to terms with the fact that he really just wants to make a 70s disaster movie. Thanks to a game cast and stunning special effects, he delivers.

This oddly effective ‘reimagining’ loses some of the satire but none of the bite of the 1978 George Romero classic.

Ambitious if ultimately unmoving documentary follows a group of homeless living beneath New York City’s Amtrak tracks. While director Marc Singer’s dedication is admirable, the film itself has trouble shedding light on its subject.

Kurt Russell’s intense performance is the only thing of note in Ron Shelton’s otherwise obvious, over-acted police story about corrupt LA cops during the Rodney King trial.

Surprising no one except studio executives, Ben Affleck does not make a compelling addition to the cinema superhero pantheon. As the blind crime fighter of the title, Mr. Affleck wanders from one badly written scene to another trying in vain to compete with Colin Farrell’s scenery-chewing bad guy and Jennifer Garner’s gorgeous femme fatale.

Mildly amusing trifle from Woody Allen paying homage to the films of the 40s by way of his usual, visibly aging neuroses. Doesn’t hold a candle to his earlier work but still winds up being more fun than most modern comedies.

The martial arts genre is finally given its due thanks to Director Ang Lee’s beautiful, breathtaking epic.

In case you’re keeping score: DMX isn’t much of an actor, rapper or martial artist. And poor Jet Li can’t seem to buy a good Hollywood film role. Together, the scowling twosome wander listlessly from one absurd, poorly-filmed action spectacle to another. And no, there’s no explanation for the title.