The Long Kiss Goodnight

Davis plays a suburban mom, amnesiac, and trained-to-kill bottle blonde.

"...an amnesia victim who has no memory of her life before she woke up on a New Jersey beach..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Clerks

Kevin Smith's feature debut is an outrageous, profane, and deliriously dead-on comedy that follows a day in the life of two young convenience/video store clerks.

"...debut, an outrageous, profane, and deliriously dead-on comedy that follows a day in the life of two young convenience/video..."

Nov. 11, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Where the Rivers Flow North

"...to protect their land and their established way of life from the encroachments of “progress” and modern civilization. Set..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Grief

"...exemplar, Divorce Court. Best described as no-budget rather than low-budget, Grief's technical attributes are strictly no-frills, with intermittent sound..."

June 3, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Three Musketeers

"...political revisionism and Herek's The Three Musketeers is the lowball version. The complex political intrigue of the original is..."

Nov. 19, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

Black Harvest

"...-- Popina -- and propose that if the tribe allows him to acquire some of their land, then they..."

June 11, 1993 Movie Review by Pamela Bruce

Star Time

"...overwrought chunk of backhanded social commentary served up with low light levels and unfathomable characterizations. St. Gerard (loved the..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Hero

"...credos, “look out for number one” and “keep a low profile” seem to get him into more trouble than..."

Oct. 2, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's 1992 Festival of Animation

"...of a cartoonist's creation that fights for his tiny life after the creator decides to discard him. Ken Lidster,..."

Aug. 21, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Stranger Among Us

"...partner/boyfriend during a bust. Consequently, she's handed this innocuous, low-profile missing person case that thrusts her cynical, mini-skirted butt..."

July 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"Building Bombs" and "Deadly Deception"

"...General Electric which purports to “bring good things to life.” It contrasts GE's mythologizing ad campaign with the realities..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ruby

"...sets go with the movie's cut-rate look and its low-rent world. Unfortunately, this movie has no idea of the..."

April 3, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

A Matter of Degrees

"...of new wave sweeping through American independent filmmaking. Small, no-to-low budget films such as Three Bewildered People in the..."

Sept. 13, 1991 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Slacker

Slacker's perception of our city's subcultures shows them not to be so marginal after all.

"...I know of that claims this city's version of life on the margins of the working world as its..."

July 5, 1991 Movie Review by Chris Walters

Mister Organ

Tickled director sails into a true-life Cape Fear

"...itself, with Farrier as the lead character – a low-stakes Michael Moore...."

Oct. 13, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The People vs. Fritz Bauer

The hunt for Adolf Eichmann

"...the next in this absorbing period piece about a real-life district attorney of a central German state, Fritz Bauer..."

Aug. 26, 2016 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

DVD Watch: 'Hill Street Blues'

An aural history of the cop show that changed TV

"...a cop drama called Hill Street Blues aired to low ratings on NBC. When it finally went off the..."

April 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Going With the Flow

The next life of Waller Creek

"...– Joseph Jones, Life on Waller Creek..."

Jan. 11, 2013 News Feature by Ari Phillips

Youth in Revolt

Teen angst is on the docket in this Michael Cera vehicle that's pleasant but never delivers on the revolt promised in the title.

"...Nineties epistolary novel, Youth in Revolt chronicles the tortured life of Nick Twisp (Cera), a teen living mostly friendlessly..."

Jan. 8, 2010 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Young@Heart

Even though this documentary about a choral group of lovable octogenarians whose perform songs by Sonic Youth and the Talking Heads sounds gimmicky, it is really about something to which we can all relate: our own mortality.

"...course of these eight weeks, the drama of everyday life runs the gamut from the comical to the heartbreaking...."

April 18, 2008 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Fountain

Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him: The Fountain is a dry well.

"...Like some epic figure of yore, writer/director Aronofsky has allowed his hubris to get the better of him. Whereas..."

Nov. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Akeelah and the Bee

This story about a girl from the ghetto who wins the national spelling bee has lofty if sometimes unfulfilled goals, but is a rewarding tale nevertheless.

"...other institutional advantages. In the film, Ashley says her life is like a movie: She struggles and she overcomes...."

April 28, 2006 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

This Is My Father

"...the same. Chicago high school teacher Kieran Johnson's (Caan) life is a mess: His elderly mother Fiona is vegetating..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Habit

"...of the undead roams around the Village sucking the life out of yet another struggling, scraggly artist-type. My reaction?..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Record Reviews

"...the deftly arranged, emotionally taxing "The Man Who Loved Life." The rest of the album falls somewhere between palatable..."

April 25, 1997 Music Review

The Kitchen

1970s mob drama gets a #MeToo overhaul

"...wives who scheme to rule Midtown Manhattan after their low-rent husbands get taken down by the FBI midheist. Kathy..."

Aug. 16, 2019 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Prospect

Lo-fi sci-fi drama is driven by performances and ingenuity

"...of the galaxy, harvesting rare crystals from local toxic life forms to pay off their family’s debt. When Damon..."

Nov. 9, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Danger One

Less Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang, more shrug shrug, meh meh

"...help support his family, while Dean has sunk his life’s savings into a dying company. So when the two..."

Sept. 14, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

How to Talk to Girls at Parties

Neil Gaiman's short story gets an inessential musical makeover.

"...Mitchell’s outrageous and defiantly over-the-top-and-beyond-the-fringe take on the author’s low-key love story...."

June 1, 2018 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All I See Is You

A blind woman who regains her sight starts to see things differently

"...Obsession is present, but not like that of a Lifetime Movie villain; it’s more subtle and, well … real...."

Oct. 27, 2017 Movie Review by Danielle White

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