A Civil Action

"...elements can't make for good cinema. In fact, one key confrontation between Duvall and Travolta, in which Duvall drops..."

Jan. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Orgazmo

"...porn industry while simultaneously using real-life porno actors in key roles. Parker's white-bread take on the apple-pie, Mormon Joe..."

Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Pecker

"...Waters' satire of the New York art world and off-key love song to his native Baltimore, is as savagely..."

Sept. 25, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dance With Me

"...rather its funky, down-to-earth locales, quirky innocence, and unpretentious, low-key acting. Chayanne, one of those nouveau hunks who uses..."

Aug. 21, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Dr. Dolittle

"...Dr. Dolittle's creators have zeroed right in on the key element of successful audience ingratiation, the benign and endearing..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Moon Over Broadway

"...in a capital murder case. Tensions escalate as the key players -- playwright Ludwig, director Moore, stars Burnett and..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Licensed to Kill

"...on whoever was there,” one murderer confesses under Dong's low-key probing. With no ambivalence, I wish that the Christian..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Carmen Miranda: Bananas Is My Business

"...victim of the same imagery that was also the key to her enormous success. In 1945, Carmen Miranda was..."

Nov. 1, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Flipper

"...son of divorcing parents arrives on a remote Florida key, marooned for the summer with a salty old sailor/uncle..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

The Low Life

"...and Confused, gives a controlled, introverted performance, often maddeningly low-key, that suggests a subtle something brewing just below the..."

May 17, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Sunset Park

"...the film runs sticky like molasses through a few key scenes, individual performances and a general air of good..."

May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Juror

"...lock it up for life and toss away the key. No mercy. At best, you could say that it's..."

Feb. 9, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Man With the Perfect Swing

"...will pay off. Then one day Babe discovers “the key” to the perfect golf swing. He goes to the..."

Nov. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Patrick Taggart

Sister My Sister

"...Danzard (Walters), and her daughter Isabelle (Thursfield). Revealing this key plot point will not ruin the film because its..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Safe

Everyone is having a hard time putting a finger on Carol's problem, but nothing seems to cure her discomfort and, steadily, she wastes away. Is her problem medical, societal, or psychological? All of the above?

"...or psychological? All of the above? One of the key elements that makes Safe such an enormously challenging film..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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.

"...– sure to be remembered as one of the key achievements of the Hong Kong cinema in the 1990s...."

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

Clive Barker's Lord of Illusions

"...and, more than anything, his dialogue, are all disastrously off-key. Rarely have I heard such gales of unintended laughter..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dr. Lamb

"...that pushes the limits of bad taste in several key scenes, Dr. Lamb is a slick, and sick, exploitation..."

Aug. 25, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Amateur

"...they're in hot pursuit of each other; again, Hartley's low-key approach to directing suffuses his actors' performances. Amateur's pacing..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

A Taste of Killing and Romance

"...to director Chan's sense of style and a few key scenes of jolting violence -- some of which were..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box

"...imagination and fantasy. Based on the legend of the Monkey King, the film offers an unusual mixture of Chinese..."

May 19, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him

"...with a measured, almost deliberate pace and honest but low-key performances, the film seems at times to be going..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Born to Be Wild

"...quarter of its running time replaying many of the key plot points of John Badham's Project X, while the..."

April 7, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Queen Margot

This visaully sumptuous story about regal intrigues and passions during the religious wars of the 16th century is based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.

"...same name for the screen. The film recreates two key events that occurred in France during the late 16th..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Aileen Wuornos: The Selling of a Serial Killer

"...and, to back this up, he serenades us with off-key renditions of Phil Ochs' “The Iron Lady” and a..."

Aug. 12, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Favor

"...her old beau (Wahl) -- is handled in a low-key fashion, as if it's but one more thread in..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Backbeat

"...better than it has any need to be. The key performances are good, though the remaining band members have..."

May 6, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fiorile

"...by the actors who perform in dual roles as key members of the Benedetti clan over the years. Fiorile..."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Savage Nights

"...his life. With believable, unmannered performances by all three key performers (and an uncredited cameo by Maria Schneider), these..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wicked City

"...dwarfish, oversexed buffoon who just happens to hold the key to universal peace. Liberal dollops of gore and sex..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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