Mr. Holland's Opus

"...Directed by: Stephen Herek. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas, Olympia Dukakis, William H...."

Jan. 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

What About Bob?

In this classic comedy, Murray plays a patient who drives his shrink (Dreyfuss) crazy.

"...Directed by: Frank Oz. Starring: Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty and Charlie Kormos. What About Bob?..."

May 24, 1991 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Silent Fall

"...Directed by: Bruce Beresford. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Liv Tyler, Ben Faulkner, J.t. Walsh, Linda Hamilton..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Another Stakeout

"...Directed by: John Badham. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell, Cathy Moriarty and Dennis..."

July 23, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead

"...Directed by: Tom Stoppard. Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss and Iain Glen. Director and playwright Tom Stoppard..."

May 10, 1991 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Krippendorf's Tribe

"...Directed by: Todd Holland. Starring: Richard Dreyfuss, Jenna Elfman, Natasha Lyonne, Gregory Smith, Lily Tomlin,..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lost in Yonkers

"...Directed by: Martha Coolidge. Starring: Mercedes Ruehl, Richard Dreyfuss, Irene Worth, Brad Stoll, Mike Damus, David Strathairn,..."

May 21, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Silver City

John Sayles adds his cinematic two cents to this election year’s plethora of politically minded movies.

"...Directed by: John Sayles. Starring: Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Danny Huston, Mary Kay Place, Michael Murphy, Maria..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

My Life in Ruins

Nia Vardalos, who hit pay dirt with My Big Fat Greek Wedding, is on shakier ground with this clichéd story about an American tourist guide in Greece.

"...Directed by: Donald Petrie. Starring: Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis, Rachel Dratch, Harland Williams, Alistair McGowan,..."

June 5, 2009 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fall Movie Round-Up

Sneaking Into Autumn

"...posssess; it's based on a best-selling European novel by Richard Schneider...."

Sept. 6, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Book Club

Life, love, laughter, and literature for a classic quartet of actresses

"...Alicia Silverstone, Andy Garcia, Don Johnson, Ed Begley Jr., Richard Dreyfuss and Wallace Shawn...."

May 18, 2018 Movie Review by Matthew Monagle

Poseidon

A handful of talented actors checked their egos at the door in hopes of … something, but this Poseidon is a wash.

"...Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen. Starring: Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, Richard Dreyfuss, Jacinda Barrett, Emmy Rossum, Mike Vogel, Mia Maestro,..."

May 12, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Crew

"...Starring: Michael Sandoval, Carrie-Anne Moss, Jennifer Tilly, Seymour Cassel, Richard Dreyfuss, Dan Hedaya and Burt Reynolds. Galling as it..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Scanlines

Five Minutes to Live

"...D: John McNaughton (1999) with Richard Dreyfuss, Eric Roberts, Anthony LaPaglia, Max Perlich, Beverly D'Angelo...."

Aug. 27, 1999 Screens Feature

Night Falls On Manhattan

"...Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, Miguel Ferrer, Lena Olin and Richard Dreyfuss. There's an adage in baseball that when a..."

May 16, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Fourth Kind

This pseudo-mockumentary starring Milla Jovovich echoes both The Blair Witch Project and The X-Files.

"...a little creeped out, as though you'd just watched Richard Dreyfuss run back out of the CE3K mothership and..."

Nov. 6, 2009 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Graduation

This high school bank-heist caper flunks out.

"...prompt some kind of soul search – à la Richard Dreyfuss in American Graffiti – it kicks off a..."

May 2, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Just Friends

A tepid romantic comedy with a side order of vitriol.

"...Allen-lite, held her own against the not-inconsiderable powers of Richard Dreyfuss and Bill Murray in Frank Oz’s underrated What..."

Nov. 25, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Page Two

Steve Earle brings Townes Van Zandt's ghost along on Silver City's magical mystery tour; it hangs around for the Toronto Film Festival

"...political satire featuring an all-star cast, including Danny Huston, Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Chris Cooper, Mary Kay Place, Kris..."

Sept. 17, 2004 Column by Louis Black

TV Eye

Fail Safe, the much-heralded live television event shepherded by George Clooney, hits its mark.

"...The performances were uniformly strong, particularly from Richard Dreyfuss, who managed not to devour the scenery as..."

April 14, 2000 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Boudu Sauvé Des Eaux (Boudu Saved From Drowning)

"...The movie was remade in America with Nick Nolte, Richard Dreyfuss, Bette Midler, and Elizabeth Peña as Down and..."

March 30, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Scanlines

James and the Giant Peach

"...with Paul Terry, Joanna Lumley, Miriam Margolyes, Simon Callow, Richard Dreyfuss, Jane Leeves, Pete Postlethwaite, Susan Sarandon, David Thewlis...."

Nov. 15, 1996 Screens Feature

The Ghost and the Darkness

"...mind the scenes of Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, and Richard Dreyfuss hamming it up aboard the Orca. Perhaps a..."

Oct. 18, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vulcan (Video) Mind Meld

Staking out the store’s new North Loop location

"...Netflix doesn’t stream John Badham’s 1987 cop-buddy flick starring Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, and San Antonio dweller Madeleine Stowe...."

May 30, 2014 Screens Post by Raoul Hernandez

Inside the Actor's Superego

How Michael Baldwin got here (hint: It involves a showbiz upbringing, Oreo cookies, and shrieking armadas of flying, brain-sucking spheres)

"...my smiling face sandwiched right between Charlton Heston and Richard Dreyfuss. I think I was ahead of Dreyfuss but..."

July 1, 2005 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Second Coming

Close Encounters of the Third Kind: Definitive Director's Cut (1977)

"...D: Steven Spielberg; with Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr, Melinda Dillon, Cary Guffey,..."

July 30, 1999 Screens Feature

Friggin' Genius

SXSW Film announces feature film lineup

"...Edward Norton, Keri Russell, Tim Blake Nelson, Melanie Lynskey, Richard Dreyfuss (U.S. Premiere)..."

Feb. 4, 2010 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Ring in the HollyDaze

Holiday Movie Previews

"...D: Stephen Herek; with Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright...."

Nov. 29, 1996 Screens Feature by Marjorie Baumgarten

Footnotes to 2008

Five further thoughts on the year in film

"...professor David Kapesh in Elegy. I don’t get it. Richard Benjamin is still acting, right? What about Judd Hirsch?..."

Dec. 30, 2008 Screens Post by Josh Rosenblatt

Page Two

Prelude to a column on cinematographer Haskell Wexler – by way of defending the ideological, political, and philosophical passions of John Sayles and Maggie Renzi against the intellectual bankruptcy of most current film criticism

"...so fresh, sharp, and rich, with wonderful performances by Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Chris Cooper, and Kris Kristofferson, among..."

June 3, 2005 Column by Louis Black

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