Cinema Review Archive: October 2003

Mystic River

Sean Penn, Tim Robbins and Kevin Bacon star in Clint Eastwood's dark crime drama about the murder of a teenage girl and its effects on the lives of three men who were childhood friends and are each connected to the killing in a different way.

Intolerable Cruelty

George Clooney and Catherine Zeta-Jones star in Intolerable Cruelty, a barbed romantic comedy that's the Coen Brothers' most mainstream film yet, but so entertaining it's hard to object. Review by Gary Couzens. Intolerable Cruelty opens in the UK and Ireland on 24 October.

The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003)

Tiffany Bradford has reviewed the US theatrical release of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (2003), a surprisingly good horror film in its own right, but nowhere near the level of genius of the Tobe Hooper 1974 cult classic it remade.

The League Of Extraordinary Gentlemen

Sean Connery stars in this big budget action fantasy which brings together some of literature's most famous heroes and monsters to take on a mysterious supervillain who wants to start a world war.

Finding Nemo

The fifth full-length feature film from Toy Story creators Pixar, Finding Nemo follows the adventures of a plucky little clownfish on a heroic quest to save his son.

Down With Love

An attempt to make an early sixties Doris Day-style comedy for modern audiences, Down With Love pits Renée Zellweger's feminist writer against Ewan McGregor's womanising journalist.

Bad Boys II

Jon Robertson drew the short straw and set off to the cinema to review Bad Boys II. A masterpiece or a mangled mess? See inside and find out...

Kill Bill Vol. 1

Quentin Tarantino's long-awaited fourth film is here - or at least the first half of it is. Kill Bill Vol. 1 is his take on a martial arts revenge movie starring Uma Thurman as a retired assassin hellbent on avenging herself on the former associates who tried to kill her. Lucy Liu also stars.