The Original Kings of Comedy

"...Strip, Eddie Murphy's Raw, and Martin Lawrence's You So Crazy. It captures a recent Charlotte, North Carolina, performance of..."

Aug. 18, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Knockout

"...Forties-era fisticuffs film and runs them together with such crazy gusto that I wondered if this weren't some sort..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl, Interrupted

"...of charitable contributions to psychiatric youth counseling centers and like-minded institutions. Then again, young girls probably go to movies..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cruel Intentions

In its fourth film rendition, Les Liaisons Dangereuses is adapted for the high-school set.

"...a great, rich, sink-your-teeth-into-it-and-chew-away work for actors and directors alike. Of all the principals involved in this production, though,..."

March 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Gadjo Dilo

"...sense of intoxication with the world's beauty and mystery. Like his two previous American releases, Latcho Drom (1993) and..."

Oct. 2, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Soul in the Hole

"...Gardener. Though it's often used in connection with teams like Tom Penders' Texas Runnin' Horns, the term “playground basketball”..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

She's So Lovely

"...there are in art than in real life? Nothing like a few colorful expletives and squalid urban tableaux to..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Angel Dust

"...In Angel Dust, however, Japanese director Sogo Ishii (The Crazy Family) keeps things moving at a relentless pace, and..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue

"...movie called Shaolin Kung Fu Mystagogue doesn't automatically sound like a good time, then never mind -- this movie..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Nine Months

"...based on the French film Neuf Mois, is all crazy sight gags and no story. Grant stars as Samuel..."

July 14, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Search and Destroy

"...swings between public lionization and critical opprobrium. It is unlikely that Search and Destroy will engender much heartfelt reaction..."

June 9, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Simple Twist of Fate

"...a Hard Copy version of this movie would play like the apocalyptic end of the nuclear family as we..."

Sept. 9, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Dragons Forever

"...defender who is apparently in cahoots with Hung and semi-crazy pal Biao in a scheme to buy out an..."

July 15, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Home of Our Own

"...that tell very human stories. My Bodyguard, Five Corners, Crazy People and, now, A Home of Our Own, are..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Close to Eden

"...us, we become absorbed by its stunning lyricism. Scenes like the slaughter of a sheep for dinner contain mixtures..."

May 7, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Benny & Joon

Naïf meets waif in this touching yet whimsically unrealistic tale of love amongst society's write-offs.

"...other and set out to prove that in this crazy, mixed-up world, there's somebody out there for everyone, no..."

April 16, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Indecent Proposal

"...the couple agrees, with predictable results ensuing: he goes crazy with jealousy, she cries a lot, and they eventually..."

April 9, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Opposite Sex (And How to Live With Them)

"...– it must really mean love. But wait. These crazy kids have absolutely nothing in common. She's so Yuppie,..."

March 26, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Fire in the Sky

"...came upon a UFO in the woods. It sounds like great fodder for sensationalism and special effects, but Fire..."

March 19, 1993 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Out On a Limb

"...you shake the feeling that you're trapped in some crazy crossbreed of The Dukes of Hazzard meets Newhart. Things..."

Sept. 11, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Highway 61

"...when you meet him, and redemption might not look like much up close, but the freedom you find on..."

Aug. 14, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Power of One

"...(who previously worked with Avildsen as the bat-wielding principal, “Crazy Joe”Clark in Lean on Me) as his mentors --..."

April 10, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Story of Boys and Girls

"...family manages to pull an impressive feast together. But like the feast itself, this movie is just too much...."

Nov. 22, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Reflecting Skin

"...Jeremy Cooper, Sheila Moore, Duncan Fraser and David Longworth. Like an irrational but beautiful dream, The Reflecting Skin unfolds..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Flame in My Heart

"...cord in the apartment because the ringing drives her crazy, she masturbates compulsively to the TV. The frequent sex..."

Aug. 30, 1991 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Killer

This is the film that made John Woo and Chow Yun-Fat household names within action-crazed American households. Elements of conventional melodrama and criminal double-crosses blend in this story about a hitman conducting one last job to earn the money to restore the eyesight of a woman he had previously blinded.

"...Yeh. Love is strange; in The Killer, it's batshit crazy. This latest example of the irrepressible and amazing filmmaking..."

April 19, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets

Intimate, semi-improvised last night at a dive bar sees delight in the dregs

"...but this time, right here, right now, it feels like maybe, possibly, probably they’ve nailed it. The end is..."

July 24, 2020 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lost City of Z

A futile quest for an extraordinary place

"...British cartographer and explorer Colonel Percival Fawcett simply feels like something inconveniently just out of reach. Lacking any true..."

April 21, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Future of Tegan & Sara

Digital age Intervention

"...few women are scoring films. I think it’s something like less than 2 percent of scores are done by..."

Sept. 13, 2016 Music Post by Sarah Marloff

How Not to Be an Artist

Advice on how to be an artist

"...from the how-to-annoy-cats section of Target. It was shaped like a mouse. Pointed at a tiny mirror ball I..."

March 20, 2015 Arts Feature by Adam Sultan

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