Funny Games

Austrian moralist Haneke fashions a tense drama from the sadistic games people play.

"...As Peter and Paul, Giering and Frisch are utterly cold, utterly alien killers, devoid of normal personality, acting as..."

Sept. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Friend of the Deceased

"...with it not freedom, but instead a kind of cold isolation, spurred on by a sudden upsurge in capitalist..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Butcher Boy

"...figure, a product of his environment, and a stone cold killer, who seems all the more frightening in light..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

G.I. Jane

"...with Moore the Superstar, she has the chops down cold. No matter that Scott's film is little more than..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mars Attacks!

Burton's sci-fi spoof gleefully recounts the unspeakable horror that takes place when Martians attack the planet Earth.

"...trading cards -- issued during the early 1960s when Cold War hysteria was at its peak -- that featured..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Scanlines

Cold Comfort Farm

"...to live with distant relatives on the provincially dreary Cold Comfort Farm. With the charming arrogance of the urbane,..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Screens Feature

The LoveMaster

"...act frighten me, but the entire movie leaves me cold. Shoemaker plays himself, a comedian whose entire life has..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Love & Human Remains

"...study in missed connections and lost relationships, in feeling cold, distant, marginal, like a body already dead, a corpse...."

Oct. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Showgirls

Screenwriter Joe Eszterhas' flimsy and illogical story about Vegas showgirls is a sad excuse for this prurient and purulent tale that nevertheless has its cult adherents.

"...to go home and shower afterward. It's not a cold shower that you want, either. Rather, what you crave..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Magic in the Water

"...most famous loch of them all. Squinting through the cold, misty Highland air, I scanned the flinty waters, searching..."

Sept. 8, 1995 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Bulletproof Heart

"...man who falls in love with his victim. This cold-blooded drama stares unflinchingly into the face of death. But..."

Aug. 4, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Little Odessa

"...and Maximilian Schell. So austerely realized that it seems cold to the touch, Little Odessa fittingly harks back to..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Nobody's Fool

"...the most mundane of human experience. Set in a cold, depressed town in upstate New York, Nobody's Fool “grows..."

Jan. 20, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Low Down Dirty Shame

"...is the film's parodic element, but it left me cold. A scene toward the end of the film, obviously..."

Dec. 2, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

"...myths that have grown iconic and generally dry and cold, and fire hot blood back into them. They are..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

On the Cutting Edge: Four Short Films About Violence Against Women

"...to defend women who kill their batterers in self-defense. Cold statistical facts are juxtaposed against assorted dream-like images. “Open..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fear of a Black Hat

"...is on rap group N.W.H. (Niggaz Wit Hats). Ice Cold (Cundieff), Tasty-T, and Tone Def are the amalgam of..."

Aug. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Alvaro Rodriguez

Taiga

"...a harsh, sterile environment, despite its natural beauty, with cold winds forever whipping around the people's tiny animal-skin huts,..."

Nov. 5, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kalifornia

"...it, a scuzzy parolee named Early (Pitt) -- a cold-hearted killer in the guise of a backwoods good ol'..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Léolo

"...donning cap and mittens to read, surreptitiously, by the cold light of a half-opened refrigerator door, and in writing,..."

May 28, 1993 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Lost in Yonkers

"...as well as her candy story downstairs, with a cold Prussian vigilance. Life's cruel lessons have made her stern..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ishi: The Last Yahi

"...until 1911 when he became the last living Yahi. Cold and starving, the California Indian came down from the..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Matinee

This film is a fondly humorous look back at the last gasp of America's innocence, being a kid, and, in particular, monster movies.

"...the world found itself in the midst of a cold war grown suddenly all too hot, Joe Dante's (The..."

Jan. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Efficiency Expert

"...known as “efficiency experts” who derived their opinions from cold facts and figures, rather than from the compassion of..."

Dec. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Where the Day Takes You

"...a place where dreams give way to the hard, cold facts of staying alive from day to day. Blessed..."

Nov. 6, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Clearcut

"...Powwow Highway. Wry and deadpan, Arthur's offhand comments are cold jokes on humanity. Unfortunately, this modern-day folk tale goes..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Freddie as F. R. O. 7.

"...you haven't been warned. Five dollar popcorn and a cold dark room do not a movie make. You're better..."

Sept. 4, 1992 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Patriot Games

"...Jackson and Edward Fox. For a film in which cold-blooded murder is frequently committed in the name of country,..."

June 12, 1992 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Basic Instinct

"...Tripplehorn. Even without the controversy, Basic Instinct is a cold and heartless movie. In it, Stone plays a seductive..."

March 27, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Delirious

"...also the evil script doctor hired by the show's cold producers and, to some extent, the town even has..."

Aug. 16, 1991 Movie Review by Louis Black

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