I don't sit around hoping that someone will offer me King Lear or a one-legged leper or something. Shrek is one of the best movies in years, certainly the first must-see film of 2001. It is irreverent, funny, challenging, exquisitely executed. Perros is not a place familiar to most Americans. The Mummy Returns fits the mold, but don't worry, it's a crowd pleaser.
Memento is a cinematic high-wire act, a brilliant, mesmerizing thriller performed without a net.
Joe Dirt at the top of my notepad and settled back to watch the new David Spade movie. Joe Dirt doesn't waste any time letting you know where it stands. This is the kind of movie where the hero finds two things that have fallen from the skies a meteor and an atomic bomb and both turn out to be a case of mistaken identity. Associated Press content is Copyrighted by The Associated Press.