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Deep Cover
Been playing this one over in my head for a couple days now and I can't figure out if I liked it more than I...
Film Review, Apr. 24, 1992
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Historians looking back at the last ten years of filmmaking might well dub this period the “E.M. Forster Years.” During this time, there's been a...
Film Review, Apr. 24, 1992
Thank You and Good Night!
Life and death and laughs in Brooklyn. Thank You and Good Night! is like a home-made greeting card, sent to the far reaches of the...
Film Review, Apr. 17, 1992
The Inner Circle
Some major miscalculations got in the way of what might have been an interesting movie. Set in the Soviet Union over a period of years...
Film Review, Apr. 10, 1992
The Power of One
Director Avildsen has one recurrent theme: that of the solitary individual pitted against the insensitive, dehumanizing, oppressive powers of the status quo. From Joe to...
Film Review, Apr. 10, 1992
The Cutting Edge
A champion ice-skating beauty has trouble finding a male partner who can keep pace with her.
Film Review, Apr. 10, 1992
Building Bombs and Deadly Deception
Hot on the heels of having won the well-deserved Academy Award for Best Documentary Short only a couple of days ago, Chasnoff's Deadly Deception: General...
Film Review, Apr. 3, 1992
Rock-A-doodle
This lastest animated feature from Bluth and team (The Land Before Time, An American Tail, The Secret of NIMH, All Dogs Go to Heaven) proves...
Film Review, Apr. 3, 1992
American Me
Olmos delivers a stark and unflinching study of the self-destructive perpetuation of violence, crime, and gang warfare in the Hispanic-American community.
Film Review, Mar. 20, 1992
Hippy Porn
There are not many things I know for certain about this movie, but one thing I do know is that it contains no hippies and...
Film Review, Mar. 20, 1992
Mambo Kings
This film adaptation of Oscar Hijuelos' Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, tells the story of two Cuban brothers, Cesar (Assante)...
Film Review, Mar. 20, 1992
Life Is Sweet
The title of this movie proclaims that life is sweet. It's meant to be taken with a touch of irony, I think, something more like...
Film Review, Mar. 13, 1992
Once Upon a Crime
This frothy little comedy is a pleasant enough amusement. It's not a big belly-laugh of a comedy, but it's quickly paced, fun and entertaining. Its...
Film Review, Mar. 13, 1992
The Double Life of Veronique
Kieslowski's movie is told not so much in customary narrative structures, but in glimpses, hints, and intimations. On the same day in 1968, two women are born, one in Poland, the other in France. Though the two share many characteristics, they live worlds apart. Yet each senses the other and has intuitive knowledge of the other's presence.
Film Review, Mar. 6, 1992
The Moneytree
It is nice, for a change, to see a movie that couples pot farming and questions of morality and doesn't come down on the side...
Film Review, Mar. 6, 1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
The question I have about Memoirs of an Invisible Man is this: why would anyone choose to make this story if they didn't have an...
Film Review, Feb. 28, 1992
Double Bind
Double Bind is a compilation of four short films that all share themes of ambivalence between mothers and daughters. All four films are directed by...
Film Review, Feb. 28, 1992
Hear My Song
Hear My Song is a beguiling little treat that sneaks up on you when you least expect it. On paper it doesn't sound like much....
Film Review, Feb. 21, 1992
Two by Pratibha Parmar: A Place of Rage, Khush
A Place of Rage is a wonderful opportunity to see and hear the ever-eloquent activist and teacher, Angela Davis, and one of America's most illuminating...
Film Review, Feb. 21, 1992
Daughters of the Dust
I'd wager that the portrait of turn of the century African-American women you get in Daughters of the Dust is like nothing you've ever seen...
Film Review, Feb. 14, 1992
Kafka
It seems the lives of writers are hot movie properties these days. First Barton Fink, then Naked Lunch, and now Kafka. Whoever could have imagined...
Film Review, Feb. 7, 1992
Young Soul Rebels
It's the summer of 1977, the week of the Queen's Silver Jubilee, a high point of pre-Thatcher British nationalist fervor. In the poor East End...
Film Review, Jan. 31, 1992
Love Crimes
There's maybe one-third of a stupendous movie here, another one-third that's just plain dumb and another one-third that's simply abominable. The first half-hour delivers a...
Film Review, Jan. 31, 1992
Exposure
Most of this you've seen before and seen done better. Coyote stars as photographer Peter Mandrake (subtle name, eh?) who's working in Rio de Janeiro...
Film Review, Jan. 31, 1992
Naked Lunch
Leave it to Cronenberg to tackle William S. Burroughs' notorious – and notoriously "unfilmable" – novel. Then add in a score by Ornette Coleman.
Film Review, Jan. 24, 1992
Antonia & Jane
Jane resents Antonia's classy, good looks, her impressive job in publishing, her ordered family life and her easy wealth and good fortune. Or so Jane...
Film Review, Jan. 17, 1992
Fried Green Tomatoes
The feisty Southern women of Fannie Flagg's novel are portrayed by a fantastic cast.
Film Review, Jan. 10, 1992
Stepping Out
This promises to deliver like an old-time Hollywood musical with Minnelli as teacher cum cheerleader to a bunch of flatfooted hoofers....
Film Review, Jan. 3, 1992
Europa Europa
In this award-winning foreign film, a Jewish boy during World War II adopts various non-Jewish identities in order to save his hide, but his uncircumcised penis becomes a dead giveaway.
Film Review, Dec. 27, 1991
JFK
Let's get one thing clear right from the start: Oliver Stone makes agitprop -- not film dramas, not documentaries. He makes heartfelt, heart stirring, heart...
Film Review, Dec. 27, 1991
Hook
Spielberg's Hook breaks the cardinal rule of J.M. Barrie's timeless fantasy – it grows up.
Film Review, Dec. 13, 1991
Uranus
What did you do during the war? It's 1945 in a little town in France after the Liberation. War-weary citizens are attempting to resume their...
Film Review, Dec. 6, 1991
City Zero
This prize-winning Russian film is an absurdist comedy about a rock'n'roll scandal, mistaken identity and life lived in the shadows of Stalinism and the Twilight...
Film Review, Dec. 6, 1991
An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
Produced by Steven Spielberg, this animated film follows the further adventures of the Mousekewitz family, who came to America to escape the cat pogroms.
Film Review, Nov. 29, 1991
The Man in the Moon
Just when I'd given up on seeing teenaged girls portrayed in current movies as anything other than boy-crazy bowheads or distaff rebels without causes or...
Film Review, Nov. 22, 1991
The Ten Commandments
The 70mm version of this 1956 epic will show for one week as the second film in the Arbor's little-promoted 70mm series. DeMille was one...
Film Review, Nov. 22, 1991
Cape Fear
Riveting. Suspenseful. Thoughtful. Well-planned. Well-acted. If this is Scorsese's bid for the commercial big time, then let the cash registers ring. Menacing. Psychologically thin. Routinely...
Film Review, Nov. 22, 1991
The Story of Boys and Girls
The Story of Boys and Girls would love nothing so much as to be a Jean Renoir movie. Or perhaps an intergenerational, societal panorama by...
Film Review, Nov. 22, 1991
Life on the Edge
You know those cheesy movies they show on the USA-TV channel overnight? Those barely coherent, tittering, smutty, “mine's-bigger-than-yours”-type gag-fests? Well, Life on the Edge would...
Film Review, Nov. 15, 1991
Don Juan, My Love
This Spanish comedy is an unexpected charmer, a frothy mixture of ribaldry, slapstick and mistaken identities. You know you're in for something different from the...
Film Review, Nov. 8, 1991
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