25TH HOUR - A country in post-9/11 crisis faces its family and friends.

8 MILE - Eminem stars as Jesus, King of the Jews, in a movie that’s all about being righteous.

ADAPTATION - Charlie Kaufman fights self-reference with paradox in an effort to escape his own screenplay.

A.I. - How do you like your steak?

A.I. - Our love is real, but we are not: A Butch-Dyke Fantasy. An interpretation from The Village Voice.

AMÉLIE - Amélie discovers the magic of Marketing. Don't you just want to . . . consume her?

THE ANGRY CHICKEN - Nike’s poulet en colère chases the pretentious art snob, but criticism survives for another day.

A BEAUTIFUL MIND - A mathematician imagines that there is more to life than what can be touched, but it's just his schizophrenia talking.

A BEAUTIFUL MIND - John Nash is Winston Smith from Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four. Don’t worry, Winston. Big Brother is here to help you.

BLOW - Johnny Depp proves to be the best Clinton impersonator this side of Hollywood, deftly portraying the rise and fall of the former President.

CHOCOLAT - Is chocolate the means of grace or damnation? Probably.

DONNIE DARKO - A disturbed student walks into the light.

ENEMY AT THE GATES - The epic battle of Bill Gates and Steven Jobs is retold through the eyes of Gates.

FIGHT CLUB - Hobbes is reborn as Tyler to save "Jack" (a grown-up Calvin) from the slough of un-comic despair.

FIGHT CLUB - I Am Jack’s Obscure Origins. A reading from Mike White at Cashiers du Cinemart.

FORREST GUMP - Introducing the new James Bond for the Dumbo era: I’m Gump, Forrest Gump.

THE GAME - What does it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his soul? The game of life turns out to be about dying.

HALLOWEEN - Michael Myers was a latchkey kid. Professor Pat Gill interprets the series—and the teen slasher genre—in this NPR audio segment.

HANNIBAL - "From the Inferno to Paradise with a cannibal pilgrim." A web interpretation from Killing the Buddha.

JOSIE AND THE PUSSYCATS - Consumerism is a plot—and Josie knows who’s behind it.

LADY AND THE TRAMP - Whit Stillman's famous interpretation of Disney's primer on love and marriage from The Last Days of Disco.

LEGALLY BLONDE - Hollywood’s love letter to the left brain: Interpret Me!

LORD OF THE RINGS: Fellowship of the Ring - Coziness v. greatness and Tolkien's real bittersweet geopolitics.

LORD OF THE RINGS - Epic quest or allegory of the Ph.D. process? Find out in this popular British interpretation from somewhere on the Internet.

LORD OF THE RINGS - The Secret Diaries, an offbeat reading from Cassandra Claire.

MARY POPPINS - How Mary Poppins corrupts the minds of our good capitalist youth.

THE MATRIX - The most thorough analysis of The Matrix on the Internet. Enter, if you dare.

MEMENTO - Guy Pearce does an homage to the Post-It note . . . and other reasons that memory is a drug.

METROPOLIS (1927) - The twentieth century of the mind. Workers of the world, do it again. Memories forever.

METROPOLIS (2001) - Love (or something) in the ruins. Ever since Little Boy, Japan and the U.S. have been co-enablers in a mutual identity problem.

MINORITY REPORT - Steven Spielberg’s future, where the dystopia is all Ralph Nader’s fault.

MONSTER'S BALL - Bad news for race relations as Hollywood validates the not-so-subliminal desires of the white man for the black woman.

MULHOLLAND DRIVE - David Lynch makes a two-hour intro to literary theory. Who needs "Ceci n’est pas une pipe"? We have "No hay banda."

THE OTHERS - This, for today’s postmodern feminist, is the nightmare known as motherhood.

PANIC ROOM - Life in the Big City, as seen by young optimists who leave small towns to follow their dreams.

PEARL HARBOR - CEO of Coca-Cola lauds director Michael Bay for sacralizing their product.

PLANET OF THE APES - Marketing the KKK.

PLANET OF THE APES - Tim Burton's Planet of the Apes apes The Ten Commandments and reformats the Old Testament as a continuous, hairy loop.

THE POWERPUFF GIRLS - Will the Abrahamic religions overcome their differences in time to save the world from secularism?

THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS - Let us sell you your memories.

SHREK - Find out why hot babes dig ugly rock stars.

THE SIEGE - September 11, 2001 was like watching a movie. This is what we were watching.

THE SIXTH SENSE - Bang! Psychology is dead. The age of science is over. (If you don't believe us, just check out the WB.) Long live Mulder!

SNATCH - Animal Planet meets Magnolia as Guy Ritchie gives us a taste of Social Darwinism. Can we escape the food chain?

SPIDER-MAN - Why the Green Goblin is the archetypical villain of the Viagra generation—and other sticky issues.

STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF MOTOWN - Were the backup singers of Motown’s glory days just interchangeable parts or assembly line workers?

STAR WARS - Phallic light sabers. X-Wing penetration. A dominatrix father. Ugh. Sounds like a tale of impotence.

STONE READER - Moskowitz does a documentary on a book you can’t read and instead discovers the secret of reading.

THE SUM OF ALL FEARS - Hollywood saves us from the neo-Nazis. Don’t you feel better now?

TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE - A moving near-documentary of rural poverty, says this Amazon reviewer.

TOP GUN - Quentin Tarantino deconstructs the ultimate guy film in Sleep with Me.

TOY STORY - The spiritual delusion of Buzz Lightyear.

TRAINING DAY - Denzel Washington stars as George Herbert Walker Bush discovering the consequences of training your son to be the world's traffic cop.

THE TRUMAN SHOW - Is Truman a sinner or a saint? Luther and Erasmus have a heated exchange over the sovereignty of Christof.

TWELVE MONKEYS - Terry Gilliam’s introduction to Heidegger’s Being and Time starring Bruce Willis as the prophet of authenticity.

WAKING LIFE - Is life a dream? With optimistic pessimism and pessimistic optimism, Linklater's characters talk out the unbearable lightness of being.

THE WIZARD OF OZ - The Wizard of Ads: McDonald’s, Budweiser, the Gap, oh my! Step out of the woods and into the light.

THE WIZARD OF OZ - What makes the Wiz so wonderful? It’s the movie of the American Century—and the story of public relations.

Y TU MAMÁ TAMBIÉN - A Mexican take on Beavis y Butthead. Heh-heh. Yeah, that’s it.

Cinema: The New Cathedral of Hollyworld - Okay, that's a helluva long title. It pretty much explains it though. Films are replacing religion in our cinematic age.

The Americans - A touching response and homage to the American coming-of-age film. Teenage virginity is a heavy burden. Please help.

The Europeans - A touching homage to the continental coming-of-age film. Come, hear our ecstatic cries. We beg you.

They Are Alive - JFK and Z and the questions of convincing bullshit and propaganda in a righteous cause.

The Evolution of Tom Hanks - Hanks goes meta in Cast Away, an updated version of Joe Versus the Volcano.

Rebel Consumer - Fight Club wants you to shop—at really cool stores.