Raising Arizona
The Coen brothers sealed their place in film history as more than just a novelty act with this demented comedy about an infertile couple who steal a baby. The family values here are arresting.
Marjorie Baumgarten
4111-4140 of 4,268 entries
Movie Review, June 17, 1999
River's Edge
Disturbing condensation of starkly youth anomie in the wake of a girl's murder, a conspiracy of boys, and the counsel of Dennis Hopper, who dances with a blow-up sex doll in the woods.
Movie Review, Jan. 6, 2000
S.O.B.
Edwards' crowning achievement is a wickedly funny, impeccably cast, ingeniously subversive satire of the Hollywood film industry.
Movie Review, Aug. 12, 1999
Dracula
It’s the movie that put Transylvania on the map and the role to which Bela Lugosi became forever linked.
Movie Review, Nov. 1, 2000
The Tarnished Angels
Movie Review, May 18, 2000
The Third Miracle
Movie Review, March 4, 2000
Flowers of Shanghai
Movie Review, Dec. 7, 2000
The 400 Blows
Truffaut’s first and perhaps most affecting feature, The 400 Blows, tells the story of a young boy and his petty crimes and mischief. The freeze frame that concludes the movie is one of the most quoted images in the history of cinema.
Movie Review, Nov. 4, 1999
The Getaway
The story comes from Jim Thompson’s book, and the screenplay was written by Walter Hill. The star wattage is all McQueen and MacGraw, while the propulsion is all Peckinpah.
Movie Review, Nov. 11, 1999
Wild at Heart
In love and on the lam – David Lynch-style.
Movie Review, Jan. 11, 1991
The Women
Movie Review, June 27, 2002
The Hustler
Movie Review, Aug. 30, 2000
Just Another Girl On the I.R.T.
Movie Review, April 16, 1993
Kill Squad
Movie Review, Nov. 25, 2002
Koyaanisqatsi
Movie Review, Oct. 4, 2001
Lawrence of Arabia
This desert epic won seven Academy Awards and features Peter O'Toole in his first starring role, as the adventurer T.E. Lawrence.
Movie Review, July 8, 1999
Natural Born Killers
Stone grabs our collective viscera and never lets go for the next two hours.
Movie Review, Aug. 26, 1994
Light of Day
Movie Review, Oct. 12, 2000
Days of Heaven
Movie Review, Feb. 18, 1994
The Summer House
Movie Review, Jan. 7, 1994
Dennis the Menace
This film adaptation is based more on the TV series than on the comic strip.
Movie Review, June 25, 1993
The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension
Wonderfully fun, albeit markedly chaotic and incoherent, Buckaroo Banzai is one of those movies that has earned a strong cult reputation on the basis of its mile-a-minute cross-cultural references and pseudoscientific mumbo jumbo.
Movie Review, Nov. 11, 1999
Airplane!
Movie Review, Dec. 22, 2002
Altered States
In this uneasy blend of the extreme visuals of director Ken Russell and the bloated dramaturgy of writer Paddy Chayefsky (who disowned this adaptation of his novel), Hurt plays an agnostic psychophysiologist who’s willing to try anything to find life’s answers: sensory deprivation tanks, mushrooms, you name it.
Movie Review, Dec. 2, 1999
Nude On the Moon
Movie Review, Sept. 20, 2000
La Pasión Según Berenice
Movie Review, Feb. 26, 2002
Bedknobs and Broomsticks
Movie Review, June 22, 2000
BMX Bandits
Kidman made her screen debut at the age of 16 in this Aussie teen picture about bikers, some bank robbers, and a carton of walkie-talkies.
Movie Review, Aug. 29, 2001
The Bride of Frankenstein
Movie Review, June 17, 1999
Bad Santa 2
A tired sequel that's more offensive than transgressive
