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Charles Taylor, Salon.com

1. Vanity Fair 2004 Scene by scene and moment to moment, it's a woeful misreading of the book. full review
2. Bad Boys II 2003 Necrophilia, explosions, destroyed motor vehicles, gratuitous T&A and Martin Lawrence and Will Smith doing their lame Abbott-and -Costello act. What's not to hate? full review
3. The Missing 2003 The Missing is holiday entertainment for anyone who likes either a dollop of feminist uplift or family values (or both!) with their bloodletting. full review
4. S.W.A.T. 2003 You can't get mad at it -- except for the two hours of your life it steals from you. full review
5. Something's Gotta Give 2003 Something's Gotta Give is exactly the kind of 'adult' dreck that you'd expect to see on Broadway.
6. The Master of Disguise 2002 Dana Carvey makes a lackadaisical 'comeback' as a man of a thousand faces, none of them funny. full review
7. The Sum of All Fears 2002 The Sum of All Fears pretends to be a serious exploration of nuclear terrorism, but it's really nothing more than warmed-over Cold War paranoia. full review
8. Along Came a Spider 2001 A dreary, ludicrous thriller. full review
9. The Fluffer 2001 It hasn't decided whether it wants to be a raunchy comedy or a drama about obsession with movie images. full review
10. The Musketeer 2001 The latest cinematic stab at a swashbuckling epic is a useful primer of filmic derring-don'ts. full review
11. Wet Hot American Summer 2001 A spoof that manages to be even stupider than the pictures it's spoofing. full review
12. Scary Movie 2000 The jokes in Scary Movie do everything to signal their arrival except call ahead and book a hotel room. full review
13. Forever Mine 1999 full review
14. The Impostors 1998 full review
15. Little Voice 1998 full review
16. The Mask of Zorro 1998 One of the most glorious and rousing adventure movies Hollywood has ever produced. full review
17. Mercury Rising 1998 full review
18. Nightwatch 1998 full review
19. Primary Colors 1998 A slack, tepid picture stuck in a no man's land between satire and drama. full review
20. The Apostle 1997 full review
21. Chasing Amy 1997 It could prove to be as bad a date movie for some couples as it might be a real turn-on for others. Anyone with set ideas about sex roles or orientations is likely to get steamed. full review
22. The Devil's Own 1997 full review
23. Jackie Brown 1997 [Tarantino] wanted to give Grier a role worthy of her, and he has. If only he'd given her a movie worthy of her as well. full review
24. The Peacemaker 1997 full review
25. Private Parts 1997 A flat piece of work with long, slack stretches. full review
26. Welcome to Sarajevo 1997 Messy and visceral, with an articulate, pointed anger that's recognizably British, "Welcome to Sarajevo" hits with an impact that's not diminished by the fact that Sarajevo's uneasy peace has held. full review
27. Trainspotting 1996 Hip, brutally honest and humane... full review
28. The Last of the Mohicans 1992 He conceives of the story as if it were a gigantic piece of mood music. full review
29. King Kong 1976 full review
30. Charade 1963 Made when the studio system was on its last legs, Charade still feels fresh, quick-witted, nothing like the artificial, airless Hollywood pictures of its time. full review