Beetlejuice
In this wonderfully comic spook tale, a couple of mild-mannered ghosts call upon the obnoxious demon Betelguese to help them reinhabit their house from the new (and living) tenants.
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Movie Review, Oct. 5, 2000
To Live
Movie Review, Jan. 27, 1995
Law and Order
Movie Review, March 26, 2002
Little Nemo: Adventures in Slumberland
This animated Japanese feature is based on the character created by cartoonist Winsor McCay at the dawn of cinema.
Movie Review, Nov. 27, 1992
Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Before the TV series, there was the movie in which a Nineties Valley Girl discovers her true calling.
Movie Review, Aug. 7, 1992
Highway Patrolman
Movie Review, April 8, 1994
The Piano
Movie Review, Nov. 19, 1993
Metropolis
Movie Review, May 13, 2002
Son-in-law
Movie Review, July 2, 1993
Phantom of the Paradise
Movie Review, June 20, 2001
Reds
Movie Review, Aug. 16, 2000
RoboCop
Half man and half machine, but fully lethal, this RoboCop is indestructible.
Movie Review, July 13, 2000
The Decalogue: Vol. One (Parts Three & Four)
Undoubtedly his masterpiece, these next episodes of Kieslowski's examination of the Ten Commandments concern keeping it holy, not committing adultery, and honoring your mom and dad.
Movie Review, Feb. 7, 2001
Spellbound
Movie Review, Aug. 22, 2000
Total Recall
This futuristic science fiction is based on a Philip K. Dick short story, and features award-winning special effects (and, no, we don't mean Ah-nuld).
Movie Review, July 5, 2000
The Front Runner
Jason Reitman revisits a long-ago time when a sex scandal could ruin a candidate's shot at the presidency
Movie Review, Nov. 21, 2018
Twenty-One
Movie Review, Nov. 8, 1991
Night of the Comet
Movie Review, March 26, 2002
Hellraiser
Movie Review, Sept. 27, 2000
My Fair Lady
This 1964 film, featuring an enduring Lerner and Loewe score, won eight Oscars.
Movie Review, Jan. 6, 1995
The Scent of Green Papaya
Movie Review, May 6, 1994
Duck Soup
Movie Review, June 30, 1999
Losing Ground
Movie Review, March 23, 2000
Single White Female
Movie Review, Aug. 21, 1992
Raise the Red Lantern
Zhang's film is a biting examination of sexual politics, mandarin-style. Also stunningly gorgeous to look at, this melodrama transcends all borders and eras to speak to the ages.
Movie Review, June 5, 1992
Memoirs of an Invisible Man
Movie Review, Feb. 28, 1992
All That Heaven Allows
Movie Review, July 22, 1999
Network
This is a prescient, sharply drawn, and award-winning comedy written by Paddy Chayevsky about the depths to which one unscrupulous television station will sink. It makes Howard Beale "mad as hell" and he memorably raises his window to announce that he's "not going to take it anymore."
Movie Review, July 26, 2000
Polyester
Movie Review, Nov. 11, 1999
California Split
