Man on Fire

Denzel Washington heads up a pulsating kidnapping thriller.

"...portrays a child who is able to unchill Creasy’s deep-frozen heart (instead of one of those spoiled-brat kids who..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pianist

"...Jewish concert pianist in 1939 Warsaw, is chockablock with deep strains of meaning and multiple levels of both emotional..."

Jan. 10, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Signs

"...Joaquin Phoenix and Mel Gibson. Shyamalan, the writer/director (and sometime actor) behind The Sixth Sense and Unbreakable, parcels out..."

Aug. 2, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joshua

"...the citizens' universal sense of good will. After a time, if any residents still remain doubting Thomases, all questions..."

April 19, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cats & Dogs

"...it. From here on out it's a race against time as the dogs -- tough guy Butch (Baldwin) and..."

July 6, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Taste of Others

Tremendously popular French film tosses together members of different social and aesthetic circles and watches as they circle each other, sniffing out sensibilities and impressions for cracks in the veneers.

"...further as their initial antipathies develop into something more deep-seated. The actions and events here are secondary to the..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Dish

"...Genevieve Mody, Taylor Kane, Bille Brown and Lenka Kripac. Sometimes the footnotes to great historical events are more interesting..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Carman: The Champion

"...-- or at least it looks that way from deep down here in the Bible Belt. The latest to..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Butterfly

Nicely performed and beautifully shot, this story of a young boy's political awakening flutters lightly across the screen.

"...teeters on the brink of becoming one of those sentimental movies about a young boy's introduction to the world..."

Nov. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pay It Forward

"...taking a breather from the action genre (she directed Deep Impact and The Peacemaker), directs with an iron hand;..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Highlander: Endgame

"...box up those bloody latex noggins and sheath those deep-drinking medieval broadswords. The most improbably successful fantasy adventure franchise..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Gun Shy

"...Mantell. Gun shy is right: This ensemble comedy-drama from first-time director/writer Blakeney is about as interesting as a mayo..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Minus Man

"...film is curiously light in tone. Striving for the deep well of existentialism, it instead draws up a bucket..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Stir of Echoes

"...should have suggested he turn into a chicken every time a bell rings. That post-hypnotic suggestion opens Tom's mind,..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Tarzan

"...beast. However, this new Disney offering represents the first time that Tarzan has been animated (assuming we don't count..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life

"...and no aspect of Rand's philosophy goes unexamined. Her deep hatred of altruism (“I regard that as evil,” she..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

One True Thing

"...in the family drama cycle are as old and deep as civilization itself, yet every once in a while..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The X-Files

"...dark), and the other arrives in the nick of time (always with a flashlight) -- have given way to..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Love You, I Love You Not

"...deliciously kinky Sister, My Sister. Danes can be a deeply affecting screen presence -- see William Shakespeare's Romeo &..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

U.S. Marshals

"...U.S. Marshals is all Jones' show. His quarry this time is Mark Sheridan (Snipes), an accused murderer of mysterious..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Hard Rain

"...shoreline. Slater, who lost it for me around the time of 1992's insipid Kuffs, is a cardboard cutout of..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Ice Storm

Emotional deep freeze during a 1973 Thanksgiving weekend in Connecticut.

"...Adam Hann-Byrd, Elijah Wood and Henry Czerny. The emotional deep freeze experienced by a group of characters in New..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

One Night Stand

"...two take in a string quartet and pass the time with drinks and quiet, unobtrusive conversation -- and before..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Breaking Up

"...love, when you're really in love, head over heels deep into that slick red vein, there is nobody else..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Nowhere

The third chapter in Araki's teen-angst-run-riot-in-L.A. triptych is as gorgeously messy as the first two films.

"...(Totally F***ed Up and The Doom Generation), but this time Araki employs a far broader and more complex character..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Waco: The Rules of Engagement

"...lengthy (165 minutes) documentary smacks of hard facts and deep research. Gazecki, who has previously worked as a sound..."

May 2, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Love and Other Catastrophes

"...by the universality of human feelings that are as “deep” in their own way as the highbrow art the..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Breaking the Waves

"...narrative in terms of good intentions by people with deep, if strangely expressed love for one another. The tragic..."

Dec. 27, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Microcosmos

"...in Microcosmos, but documentarians Nuridsany and Perennou have a deeper agenda that finally points to one clear distinction between..."

Nov. 29, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Kingdom

"...the sublime and the bizarre, both darkly comic and deeply disturbing. (It will be screened here theatrically in two..."

Jan. 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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