Kerry Washington

Fame, Fortune, and Premature Antifascism

Your Friends and Neighbors

Racial tension, above and below the surface, in Neil LaBute's Lakeview Terrace.

Messed Around

As Ray Charles, Jamie Foxx turns an ordinary bio into an extraordinary one

I Hate It

This Spike Lee joint is a cockeyed, self-righteous, and graceless diatribe

The Misadventures of Spike's Dykes

We love lesbians, and we love movies, so why don't we love Spike Lee's lesbian movie She Hate Me?

Capsule reviews

At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip

Born Identity: "Mother and Child" grapples with adoption

At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip

"For Colored Girls": Tyler Perry mangles Ntozake Shange's play

At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip

"Night Catches Us": Tanya Hamilton's debut is a brutally honest look at Black Power

At All Costs; Close-Up; Eeny Meeny; The Jazzman From the Gulag; Mask of Desire; Handsome Arno; Nowhere to Hide; Our Song; Return of the Idiot; Seduced and Abandoned; This Years Love; Trixie; Voyages; Wisconsin Death Trip