The Jacket

This mix of amnesia, time travel, and Adrien Brody adds up to a fairly forgettable experience.

"...the time-travel conceit, nor uses any of the military possibilities set up in the film’s opening. Amnesia and the..."

March 4, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Birth

If your dead husband returned to you in the body of a 10-year-old boy, would you seize the opportunity for your romance to be born again or would you call Child Welfare?

"...and, as a result, shortchanging all the film’s rich possibilities. It’s not the kind of thing one might have..."

Oct. 29, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Garden State

A mash note to love that speaks to Generation Y as powerfully as The Graduate did to the Boomers.

"...madly, deeply in love with love and its redemptive possibilities. As Andrew reconnects with life on a multitude of..."

Aug. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

A Home at the End of the World

Michael Cunningham's novel is the basis for this story of a love triangle in which everyone's in love with Bobby (played by Colin Farrell).

"...Penn). The three roommates have an unusual dynamic, the possibilities of which are electrifying – especially when Clare becomes..."

Aug. 6, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Girl With a Pearl Earring

Bona fide "art" movie starring this season's It Girl, Scarlett Johansson, is as flat and enigmatic as the titular portrait by Vermeer.

"...wife. Unfortunately, once first-time director Webber sets all these possibilities in motion, he fails to give them any space..."

Jan. 30, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

From Justin to Kelly

"...deodorized and sanitized movie is rife with unexplored dramatic possibilities. Without question, the quintessential spring-break movie is the original..."

June 27, 2003 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Real Women Have Curves

"...It's the struggle between mothers and daughters, expectations and possibilities, cultural constraints and individual potential -- the struggle of..."

Oct. 25, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Enemy at the Gates

"...a disappointment primarily because it seems so rich with possibilities. War may indeed be hell but it seems that..."

March 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai

Jarmusch's film is a tone poem about a contemporary hitman nicknamed Ghost Dog (Whitaker), who is steeped in the code of the ancient Japanese samurai.

"...supreme shotmaker. His compositions are vivid and rich with possibilities. His images can go from the quietude of Ghost..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Boys Don't Cry

Without resorting to dogma, ideological tracts, or cautionary tales, Boys Don't Cry evocatively tells the true story of a young Nebraska woman who changed her sexual identity and transformed herself (sans surgery) into a young man. Swank won her first Oscar for this role.

"...the American heartland, resonant and fully formed, ripe with possibilities. It's a beautifully crafted movie based on the true..."

Dec. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mystery, Alaska

"...the formidable New York Rangers -- is rife with possibilities, but Roach and Kelley squander each and every one..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Bedrooms and Hallways

"...lend vibrancy to the movie as it explores the possibilities and permutations of sexuality and intimacy. It never delves..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Artemisia

"...what is portrayed in Artemisia. While that opens up possibilities for understanding, it also presents a skewed perspective for..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is the drama every comic probably wishes he had made. In this life-affirming Italian "concentration-camp comedy," Benigni uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for telling a heartfelt story about a father who protects his son from the gas chambers by the use of the only weapons at his command: his quick imagination, outlandish buffoonery, and scrappy determination.

"...by privileging history's impermeability we are also limiting its possibilities for inciting the poetic imagination. What Benigni does in..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

I Think I Do

"...for a wedding provides a setting full of screwball possibilities as couples, both gay and straight, couple and uncouple,..."

May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Critical Care

"...Lumet was tempted to this stiff by the Network-like possibilities inherent in Steven Schwartz's script. Both films use major..."

Nov. 14, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Pillow Book

"...of a young Japanese woman infatuated with the erotic possibilities of traditional Sino-Japanese calligraphy, Greenaway and his picture-perfect cast..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Spitfire Grill

"...redemption and decency are shown to be very real possibilities in The Spitfire Grill, a movie whose superlative performances..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

If Lucy Fell

"...them had found a serious lover with “definite familial possibilities” by age 30, they end it all together atop..."

March 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love

"...Yet new protagonists can also generate new narrative conflicts, possibilities, expectations, and resolutions. This is made clear in the..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Walking Dead

"...the first place. Whitmore's script is full of intriguing possibilities that are never explored; if not for the flashbacks,..."

March 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Jerky Boys

"...faves “fruity ass” and “squeaky nuts” might have amusing possibilities, but these guys utter this stuff as though it's..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silent Fall

"...the brutal murder of his parents -- has fertile possibilities, but Akiva Goldsman's screenplay only touches upon them. Moreover,..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Max, Mon Amour

"...their union -- would seem inherently rich in provocative possibilities, a mother lode of philosophical ideas about the relationships..."

Sept. 5, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

White

"...unlike Blue, which used a sad story to explore possibilities of optimism and hope, White is dominated by the..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Household Saints

"...old philosophical debate about whether life is filled with possibilities or predeterminations. Then, more than an hour into the..."

Dec. 3, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Look Who's Talking Now!

"...that now includes (the producers having exhausted all previous possibilities, one must assume) a pair of canines whose internal..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Wonderful

"...get around alimony is an idea seemingly loaded with possibilities and, for a while, the gag works. Unfortunately, director..."

Oct. 22, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Equinox

"...and a spiritual blend of violent menace and wide-eyed possibilities. Omnipresent Lotto advertisements also connect the sequences in a..."

Sept. 10, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hours and Times

"...in which they lived that filtered their desires and possibilities. Did they or didn't they is merely conjecture. Could..."

Aug. 7, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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