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Ishi: The Last Yahi
This wonderful, award-winning, hour-long documentary is an absorbing, eye-opening look at the dichotomous American obsession with “savagery” and “civilization.” It recounts the history of the...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, May. 7, 1993
Sidekicks
All of you who have at one time nursed the notion that Joe Piscopo may be some sort of lower life form are proven correct...
Marc Savlov, Review, May. 7, 1993
Bound by Honor
“No Baptist sermon, eh?” So crack the young heroes of this saga of Chicano brotherhood whenever they feel they're being lectured. And as often as...
Robert Faires, Review, May. 7, 1993
Full Contact
While it may lack the self-assured, stylistic integrity of John Woo's films, this recent Hong Kong import more than makes up for it in its...
Marc Savlov, Review, May. 7, 1993
Three of Hearts
Though fashioned like an old-time screwball comedy, Three of Hearts' presentation of its central love triangle is thoroughly contemporary. A rejected lover hires an “escort”...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, May. 7, 1993
This Boy's Life
This Boy's Life is based on author Tobias Wolf's autobiographical memoir about growing up in the Fifties in the company of his divorced and seemingly...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Twogether
Somewhere near the end of this indie feature about the lifestyles and foibles of the young and uncommitted, a character exasperatedly exclaims: “You can't change...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Indian Summer
I've short-sheeted beds and belted out camp songs with the best of them. Indian Summer made me long to be back in one of those...
Hollis Chacona, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Volere, Volare
Much in the same manner as Roberto Benigni's Johnny Stecchino, Nichetti's Volere, Volare joins the growing trend of Italian films that puts a Latin spin...
Pamela Bruce, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Once Upon a Time in China II
Funny thing about Chinese film sequels: they tend to be better than their originals. Take this one for example. Whereas Once Upon A Time in...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Blue Planet
Winner of numerous awards, including the Nastro D'Argento (Italy's equivalent to the Academy Awards) and the United Nations Award for Film and Television, this 1981...
Pamela Bruce, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Who's the Mannull
The opening barber shop scene in this film promises a devilish trip through the world of Harlem street and shop life. As the camera wanders...
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Visions of Light: The Art of Cinematography
If you can get past that RTF 301 title, what you'll find here is an extremely engrossing meditation on an aspect of most films that...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
The Dark Half
For all twelve of you out there who didn't read Stephen King's book while it lingered on the Times best-seller list for several months, this...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Mac
Set in the racial melting pot of Queens, New York in 1954, Turturro's autobiographical tale is loosely based on the life of his father, a...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 30, 1993
Riff-Raff
Riff-Raff is a comedy/drama with a ferocious social conscience. As seen through the eyes of a Scottish working class stiff biding time on a London...
Steve Davis, Review, Apr. 23, 1993
Boiling Point
Gerald Petievich's novels are usually tensely atmospheric thrillers that feed on themselves, layering scenes, characters and dialogue until Los Angeles, the city that seems to...
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 23, 1993
Discrète, La
Like fellow countrymen Eric Rohmer and Francois Truffaut, newcomer Vincent has a razor keen eye for the tiny, seemingly trivial details that most people never...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 23, 1993
Ethan Frome
Based upon the novel of forbidden passion and despair in the grim, frostbitten rural life of 19th-century New England, the cinematic version of Ethan Frome...
Pamela Bruce, Review, Apr. 23, 1993
Peking Opera Blues
Deception and betrayal in culture and politics take center stage in this splendid narrative that shifts between farce and violence, suspense and emotionality.
Pamela Bruce, Review, Apr. 23, 1993
Benny & Joon
Naïf meets waif in this touching yet unrealistic tale of love amongst society's write-offs. Between Masterson's schizophrenic Joon Pearl and Depp's oddball Sam, it's difficult...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 16, 1993
Just Another Girl On the I.R.T.
It's safe to say that you haven't seen many characters like Chantel (Johnson) in the movies before -- an African-American teenage girl who dreams of...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 16, 1993
Ladro Di Bambini (Stolen Children), Il
Set in and around Milan, Italy, Il Ladro de Bambini follows the journey of a young, idealistic army officer (Verso) and the two young children...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 16, 1993
Dead Alive
The Citizen Kane of Oedipal zombie-cannibal-right to death-comedy-love stories. In this early film, Jackson takes the shopworn flesh-eating zombie genre by its rotting horns, adds a dash of Monty Python, and comes up with a film so gleefully over-the-top that it's decidedly hard not to gag while you're laughing yourself incontinent.
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 16, 1993
The Sandlot
The movie is a grown man's memory of his first awkward summer in a new neighborhood in 1962 and the importance of baseball as a bonding activity.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
The Adventures of Huck Finn
It's hard to know who might be the targeted audience for this seventh film adaptation of Mark Twain's classic novel. Some of the material is...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
Cop and a Half
Most of you will have to take my word for this, because only the utterly irrational will find a reason to see this movie, but...
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
The Crush
With plot holes so large you could drive a HumVee through them, this debut film from director Shapiro is little more than a lousy hybrid,...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
Jack the Bear
Jack the Bear is a bear alright -- at times warm and cuddly like a panda but still a beast that you might not want...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
Project A -- Part II
Apparently quite a few people think this is one of Chan's best films. I guess I'm not one of them, because I still think that...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
Female Misbehavior
Female Misbehavior is a compilation of four short documentaries by feminist film director Monika Treut (Seduction: The Cruel Woman, Virgin Machine, My Father Is Coming)....
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
Indecent Proposal
Money can't buy you love but it can get you a reasonable facsimile thereof. In Indecent Proposal, a billionaire slumming in Las Vegas tests this...
Steve Davis, Review, Apr. 9, 1993
Married to It
The failures of this awkward melodrama are so obvious -- you stop little short of hissing at the villains -- and so abundant that prudence...
Louis Black, Review, Apr. 2, 1993
Hear No Evil
There's something sadistic about films which purposely place impaired persons in danger for the sake of suspense. Treating the impairment as a liability making one...
Steve Davis, Review, Apr. 2, 1993
The Match Factory Girl
With not even 70 minutes total running time and, seemingly, not more than two dozen total lines of dialogue, The Match Factory Girl spins a compelling narrative, a devastating cultural portrait, and an object lesson in the less-is-more school of storytelling.
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Apr. 2, 1993
Man Bites Dog
Is it a comedy? A documentary? An underground gore-fest? Man Bites Dog, the first feature film from Belgian director Rémy Belvaux, is all of these...
Marc Savlov, Review, Apr. 2, 1993
American Fabulous
Perched like a queen on her throne -- here, the back seat of a 1957 Cadillac -- Jeffrey Strough gives a royal performance in American...
Steve Davis, Review, Mar. 26, 1993
Rich in Love
The team who brought us Driving Miss Daisy is now driving its brand of Southern sentimental hogwash into the ground. Producers Richard and Lili Zanuck,...
Marjorie Baumgarten, Review, Mar. 26, 1993
The Opposite Sex (And How to Live With Them)
Let's face it folks. The quest to find Mr. or Ms. Right in the heterosexual dating game is more often than not about as enjoyable...
Pamela Bruce, Review, Mar. 26, 1993
Indochine
In the last year or so, French cinema has taken a retrospective look at its country's colonial legacy in Southeast Asia through such films as...
Pamela Bruce, Review, Mar. 26, 1993
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