Luminarias

"...story of four Latina friends who are struggling with love, sex, divorce, success, and a lifetime of anger and..."

July 14, 2000 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Waking the Dead

"...straight-arrow Coast Guard officer in 1973 who falls in love with Connelly's idealistic hippie chick Sarah Williams, despite their..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wirey Spindell

"...are also semi-autobiographical tales about male figures looking for love, meaning, jokes, and stunning women amid the city's creative..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Law of Desire

"...Antonio Banderas as part of a circle of wacky lovers and friends. Banderas plays a character named Antonio, who’s..."

Jan. 13, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Some Fish Can Fly

"...Bittner, Rik Nagel, Kevin Causey and Nancy St. Alban. Love and indie filmmaking go intrinsically hand in hand: One..."

Dec. 17, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Trio

"...There's honor among thieves, loyalty among family members, and love between lovers. It gets complicated, however, when all these..."

Sept. 10, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dudley Do-Right

"...version centers around the upright Royal Canadian Mountie's unrequited love for childhood sweetheart Nell Fenwick (Parker) and his clashes..."

Sept. 3, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mummy

"...-- The Wolf Man -- or even the scaly, lovestruck aquatics of The Creature From the Black Lagoon, Universal's..."

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

At First Sight

"...while At First Sight is a far more conventional love story than Awakenings, it's also far more mediocre, filled..."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Post Coitum

"...hands all over her body and beseeching an invisible lover to return to her. It's not exactly a flattering..."

June 26, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Hope Floats

"...to be single, hunky, and head over heels in love with her. There's very little drama or tension to..."

May 29, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Think I Do

"...is essentially divided into two types of people: the lover and the beloved. The tragic irony of this polar..."

May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Niagara, Niagara

"...whatever you like: Two lonely, white-trash adolescents fall in love, shoot guns, commit crimes, and go on the lam,..."

April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Breaking Up

"...Starring: Russell Crowe and Salma Hayek. When you're in love, when you're really in love, head over heels deep..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Alive & Kicking

"...His narcissistic quest for perfection leaves little room for love, or even warmth, for any but his lesbian pal..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Def Jam's How to Be a Player

"...other recent African-American romantic comedies (see also Booty Call, love jones, and Sprung), Martin's film extends the venerable traditions..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Speed 2: Cruise Control

"...as a proper movie heroine. Patric, however, as new love interest Alex -- yet another LAPD yahoo, much to..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rough Magic

"...the vaguest of ideas on where it's headed. A love story-cum-magical adventure-noir, Peploe's film goes in so many different..."

June 13, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Daytrippers

"...or not. When Eliza D'Amico (Davis) finds a mysterious love note in her husband's trousers (with whom she had..."

April 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Chasing Amy

"...it's also a decidedly adult take on dating and love in the Nineties. Who would have thought the director..."

April 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mirror Has Two Faces

"...looking for the “total experience” when it comes to love: companionship, romance, lust, and desire. In The Mirror Has..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Paperback Romance

"...stories (“I gazed at my friend as she made love with the beautiful, smooth-skinned Greek God” is a typical..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Entertaining Angels: The Dorothy Day Story

This biopic provides an introduction to the work of Dorothy Day, activist for the disenfranchised and founder of the newspaper called The Catholic Worker.

"...to cast her career in terms of her early love affairs rather than her devotion (For those keeping score,..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Big Night

"...Ang Lee's 1994 film, it effortlessly integrates its undeniable love of fine cuisine into a narrative of familial bonds..."

Oct. 4, 1996 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Reckless Moment

"...Ophüls in 1949 is a melodramatic suspense story about love, blackmail, and a mother's love for her daughter. James..."

July 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Teardrop Pearl

"...moments unfortunate, but forgivable, blemishes in an otherwise poignant love story. The movie tells the simple tale of two..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Temptation of a Monk

"...the deaths of his friends and his on-again, off-again love interest (Joan Chen) at the hands of government soldiers,..."

July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Red Firecracker, Green Firecracker

"...inexplicably drawn to him. The pair eventually fall in love, much to the chagrin of Chun Zhi's guardian, the..."

July 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Postman (Il Postino)

"...of a homeland's government. The Postman also is a love story of the first order, a sweet Cyrano tale..."

July 7, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Burnt by the Sun

"...foreign film is a brilliant, Chekhovian meditation on trust, love, and the intrusive horrors that period of time brought..."

June 23, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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