The Opposite of Sex—What starts as a gleefully un-PC comedy about a cynical teenage seductress (Christina Ricci) unexpectedly turns out to have real characters, too—Lisa Kudrow is particularly good.
Colonel Chabert—The great Gerard Depardieu as a Napoleonic soldier thought dead, who haunts his rich wife and her social-climbing new husband like a reproachful wraith.
Touch—If “off-kilter black comedy based on Elmore (Get Shorty) Leonard” isn’t enough to entice you, how about this: “Christopher Walken as an ex-televangelist”?
Vanya on 42nd Street—Another beautifully simple film from the stars and director of My Dinner With Andre: a group of actors (including the luminous Julianne Moore) gather to explore Chekhov in a NYC theater.
Unstrung Heroes—Michael (Kramer) Richards should have gotten a supporting Oscar nomination as one of the two crazy uncles in writer Franz Lidz’s bittersweet childhood memoir, sensitively directed by Diane Keaton.
Hard Eight—An aging gambler takes a loser under his wing—but why? First film by the director of Boogie Nights is as tight as that film is sprawling.
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