Subject: Reese Witherspoon

• Monsters vs. Aliens

  In this latest round of effects vs. storytelling, effects win. Big.

  March 25, 2009

• Fish Out of (Frozen) Water

  Renée Zellweger is the anti–Norma Rae.

  January 28, 2009

• Noël Hell

  Witherspoon and Vaughn's yuletide carol is Four Christmases too many.

  November 26, 2008

• Support Group

  The year's best characters

  December 26, 2007

• Hock the Line

  Sending up the biopic, Walk Hard sells cheap laughs, lame cameos, and lifeless Cox

  December 19, 2007

• 'The Kingdom' Posits CSI: Riyadh with a Jamie Foxx Twist

  September 26, 2007

• Coming Soon

  The summer season always brings out the worst in Hollywood, but there are also gems to be found

  June 13, 2007

• Also Playing

  Our critics weigh in on local theater

  February 21, 2007

• Pink Power

  This musical stage adaptation of the movie, like, totally rocks

  February 14, 2007

• Film Orgy

  An abundance of the best international cinema at the 2006 Telluride and Toronto film festivals

  October 4, 2006

• The Great Cash-In

  March 1, 2006

• Coming soon: The New Roxie

  What happens when an artsy film guy who has gone way into debt hooks up with a school that doesn't know how to run a nonprofit theater? We hope it has a happy ending.

  January 11, 2006

• Hello, He's Not Johnny Cash

  November 16, 2005

• Death Warmed Over

  Romance is alive ... and dead in Just Like Heaven

  September 14, 2005

• Drift Wood

  August 24, 2005

• Just One Hitch

  February 9, 2005

• Reese's Piece

  September 1, 2004

• Think Different

  Could it be that this year's crop of summer movies actually requires a brain cell or two?

  May 28, 2003

• Best Local Film Critic

  May 14, 2003

• My Favorite Year

  January 1, 2003

• The Searchers

  Feeling dubious about Reese Witherspoon, and other insights from film historian David Thomson

  December 4, 2002

• The A-Clip A-List

  September 25, 2002

• Persistent Visions

  This season's cinema demands attention

  May 15, 2002

• A Quality Year

  After years of creative drought, inspiration was again in long supply

  December 29, 1999

• Return of the Teenager

  Everything I need to know about high school I learned from the New Teen Cinema

  May 19, 1999

• High School Unhinged

  May 5, 1999

• The Fan and the Movie Camera

  January 1, 1997

• A Four-Star Waste

  January 1, 1997

• Retrofitting Red Riding Hood

  August 21, 1996

• Torture Flick Rendition' Makes Us Water-Bored

  October 17, 2007