A Chinese Ghost Story: The Tsui Hark Animation

"...cel animation alongside computer graphics, this tale of a lovestruck young debt collector wandering around ancient China in search..."

Oct. 15, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Illuminata

"...at times frustratingly uneven, comedy that is hopelessly in love with theatre, poetry, and -- for once -- marriage...."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

An Ideal Husband

The Oscar Wilde drama about deceit and honor is presented by a solid cast.

"...Chiltern (Northam) is young, handsome, successful, and madly in love with his virtuous, but passionate, wife, Gertrude (Blanchett), who..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Desert Blue

"...a barren New Mexico township, searching presumably for life, love, and answers, and finding very little of any substance...."

June 4, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

You've Got Mail

The joke of Nora and Delia Ephron's screenplay is that the one, true love of your life may walk right past you on the sidewalk, and you'll never know it.

"...screenplay begins smartly as it charts the movie's online love affair, observing that strange intimacy in the context of..."

Dec. 18, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Meet Joe Black

"...to believe, absent from the netherworld), and falling in love with daughter Susan. At first it's difficult to understand..."

Nov. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

How Stella Got Her Groove Back

"...what we have here is a pretty conventional May-August love story in which an emotionally tapped-out 40ish businesswoman (Bassett)..."

Aug. 14, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Buffalo '66

"...and, sentimental thug that Gallo is, the search for Love. Gallo populates the film with the oddest of oddballs,..."

Aug. 7, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Jealousy

"...writer who despairs of ever finding his one true love. When he meets the vivacious Ramona (Sciorra), it appears..."

July 10, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hav Plenty

"...haywire, beginning with the protagonist's febrile search for karmic love and ending with his disavowal of his beliefs in..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Horse Whisperer

"...beauty of the horses; and the redemptive power of love, patience, and the great outdoors. The film opens with..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Two Girls and a Guy

"...turns to thoughts of… duplicitous, conniving, scheming, cheating, lying love. Toback once again directs Downey, Jr. (first time was..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kissing a Fool

"...Hunt, Vanessa Angel and Kari Wuhrer. Watching the tangled love triangle in Kissing a Fool, you may experience a..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Swept From the Sea

"...stock of Silhouette Romance covers), the images of impassioned lovers embracing atop windswept crags, etc. should go down as..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Happy Together

In this classic Wong film, his alienated and love-obsessed characters take the form of a pair of gay lovers who have moved from Hong Kong to Buenos Aires to start their fractious relationship anew.

"...39-year-old Hong Kong director's occasional series of films about love-obsessed young folks adrift in haunting urban dreamscapes that reflect..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Mon Homme

"...Bruni Tedeschi, Olivier Martinez, Mathieu Kassovitz and Sabine Azéma. Love and prostitution make for a heady, disastrous mix in..."

Dec. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Contempt

"...cinema's most interesting looks at itself, masquerading as a love story gone awry. Sumptuously filmed in CinemaScope, Contempt was..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Wight Stuff

Message to Love: This Ain't No Woodstock

"...the point that everything was hunky-dory -- peace & love obviously. And I don't believe it."..."

June 20, 1997 Screens Feature by Raoul Hernandez

Broken English

"...by Kiwi director-writer Nicholas (Avondale Dogs) centers on young lovers Nina and Eddie -- he's a native Maori, she's..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Shine

"...is it about our mad artists that makes us love them so? Shine now adds the story of Australian..."

Dec. 25, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Future's So Brite

I Love the Scent of Burning Flesh...

"...tale and warped it into a stunningly original gay love story with Goth overtones, while its semi-sequel, Drawing Blood,..."

Oct. 25, 1996 Books Feature by Marc Savlov

The Horseman on the Roof

The film captures the heroic exploits of an Italian resistance soldier who falls in love with a French noblewoman during the French cholera plague of the early 19th century.

"...Paul Freeman. The Horseman on the Roof combines a love story of epic proportions with an uneven if somewhat..."

May 31, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Costa Brava

"...in English, is nothing if not a labor of love for its director and star Marta Balletbó-Coll. The first..."

May 24, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Mrs. Winterbourne

"...be the wife of a dead man, falls in love with the dead man's brother, and can't bring herself..."

April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie

"...following has hit the silver screen. The Satellite of Love -- the spaceship commandeered by MST3K regulars Mike Nelson..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

A Month by the Lake

"...Gassman. In the movies, Italy is a place for lovers. No wonder, then, that in the enchanting A Month..."

Oct. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Steve Davis

A Walk in the Clouds

"...of these elements; it is a story of fate, love, and family honor. Based on the Italian film Four..."

Aug. 11, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Sum of Us

"...Jack Thompson, Russell Crowe, John Polson and Deborah Kennedy. Love is the greatest adventure of all, according to widower..."

April 14, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Kika

"...blonde makeup artist and sideline nymphomaniac who falls in love (more or less) with a corpse she's been hired..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Naked in New York

"...and fights to sustain a long-distance relationship with his lover in Boston, whose artistic career is blooming faster than..."

June 10, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

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