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.
Married to It
Married to It 1991, R, 112 min. Directed by Arthur Hiller, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Beau Bridges, Stockard Channing, Robert Sean Leonard, Mary Stuart Masterson, Cybill Shepherd, Ron Silver. The failures of this awkward melodrama are so obvious — you stop little short of hissing at the villains — and so abundant…
Man Bites Dog
Man Bites Dog 1992, NR. Directed by Rémy Belvaux, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Rémy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoit Poelvoorde, Jenny Drye, Jacqueline Poelvoorde. 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 and much more, a…
Hear No Evil
Hear No Evil 1993, R, 97 min. Directed by Robert Greenwald, Narrated by , Voices by , Starring Marlee Matlin, D.B. Sweeney, Martin Sheen, John C. McGinley. 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 less than whole,…
