Fire Down Below

"...rare onscreen singing performance, and Seagal extends the artistic cross-training theme by jamming with a country band. What we're..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Le Samourai

Fedoras and trench coats. Film noir in cool blues and greens. Melville's 1967 film is the real deal.

"...States. From its silent opening moments to its breathtaking double-cross conclusion, Le Samourai is the work of one of..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Twelfth Night

"...the film occasionally runs aground is in Nunn's fidgety cross-cutting. The director inexplicably chops up scenes by flitting from..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Stonewall

"...its ambitious scope; even its Greek chorus of doo-wop cross-dressers, lip-synching Sixties girl-group songs intended to link the film's..."

Sept. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Crow: City of Angels

"...attitude that nails the film to its chintzy balsa-wood cross. The romance of the original is nowhere in sight,..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cold Fever

"...though Hirata is stuck in some kind of bizarre, cross-cultural hallucination. But this shouldn't be unfamiliar turf for Masatoshi..."

July 26, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lone Star

Writer/director Sayles squeezes lots of metaphorical juice from the idea of borders in this story filmed on the Texas side of the Rio Grande. Ostensibly a murder mystery, the story exposes many other town secrets.

"...apart. The same wind blows on both sides. It crosses and crosses back again, and so do many things:..."

June 28, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Race the Sun

"...of course, and head down under for the grueling, cross-continent race where the road temperatures reach 120 (and the..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Days of Being Wild

One of Wong's first international hits, this stylish film is an atmospheric drama about a playboy who's stringing along two women while also learning that the prostitute who raised him is not his biological mother.

"...emotionally complex that occasionally the threads can't help but cross. It is for this reason that the coincidental plotting..."

Sept. 15, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Stranger

"...This doubt and suspicion culminate in a cleverly staged cross-examination that takes place in the family's house and is..."

Sept. 1, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Mamma Roma

In this early Pasolini film marked by the director's sumptuous neo-realism, Magnani plays a middle-aged prostitute who retires from the trade to become a full-time mother to her 16-year-old son.

"...Ettore (Garofolo, looking for all the world like a cross between Leonardo DiCaprio and a young Quentin Tarantino) and..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Amateur

"...rest of the film in an electrified daze, a cross between Frankenstein and Renfield. While Hartley's past films have..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Ashes of Time

"...(A Chinese Ghost Story) and the unusual characters that cross his path: A wandering friend suffering from amnesia, a..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Gordy

"...off to be fattened up, and, eventually, slaughtered. Venturing cross country, he is picked up by the singing young..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

Ride for Your Life

"...gets better every time you play it!”) Essentially a cross between CD-ROM video games and William Castle's gimmick pictures..."

May 12, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Destiny Turns On the Radio

"...indeed. Baran's Sundance-nurtured “mystical love story” is a bizarre cross-pollination of genres that puts one in mind of Alex..."

May 5, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

"The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb"

"...Frank Passingham, John Schofield and Mike Gifford. Like a cross between the Brothers Quay, Jan Svankmajer, and David Lynch,..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Eagle Shooting Heroes

"...unusual characters creates a variety of crazed situations, including cross-dressing, broken alliances, suicide attempts, and love triangles. Hardcore fans..."

March 24, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Hideaway

"...gasping and irritable, if not from the director's constant cross-cutting, then from the overly loud soundtrack, which, while containing..."

March 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Walking Dead

"...African-American soldiers in Vietnam,” The Walking Dead instead comes across as a straight-ahead, cookie-cutter festival of war film clichés,..."

March 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bhaji On the Beach

"...cheesy resort town of Blackpool. Two are at dramatic crossroads -- Ginder has left her abusive husband, Hashida has..."

Sept. 30, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Green Snake

"...hanging out in a bamboo forest one day, they cross paths with a tyrannical monk, Fa-Hai (Zhao), who promptly..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Natural Born Killers

Stone grabs our collective viscera and never lets go for the next two hours.

"...executed movie of Oliver Stone's career. Using cockeyed angles, cross-cutting between images as seen through a multiplicity of camera..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heroic Trio II: The Executioners

"...embark on their most dangerous mission yet. Ostensibly a cross between George Miller's Mad Max films and John Carpenter's..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Eat Drink Man Woman

"...recipe books following the movie.) The movie progresses by cross-cutting constantly between the lives and loves of all the..."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tai-Chi Master

This martial-arts film tells the story of a pair of monks whose paths diverge after they are cast out of their monastery for fighting.

"...a stunning upset for the partisans reveals a tremendous double-cross, the sensitive Junbiao is driven temporarily mad. While recuperating..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The November Men

"...campaign trails in 1992, though the superimpositions of rifle cross-hairs over the candidates' faces are sure to stir some..."

July 8, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wyatt Earp

"...the famous lawman the Richard Attenborough treatment: a three-hour, cross-continental, epic look at the man's life in its entirety,..."

July 1, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The Cowboy Way

"...the movie's opening sequences make sense as they inexplicably cross-cut between the pre-history of our cowboy heroes and the..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dialogues With Madwomen

"...voice of interviewer LIght off-screen. They are a representative cross-section: straight and gay, Catholic and Jew, young and middle-aged,..."

May 13, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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