The Long Kiss Goodnight

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

"...godsend to whatever film he finds himself in. The script by top-dollar Hollywood scribe Shane Black (Lethal Weapon, The..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Client

"...to tell, this kid not only doesn't let the cops protect him from the mob's snitchwhackers, but when he..."

July 29, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Deep Cover

"...twists and insights into our conventional wisdom. Here the cops are black and the criminals white, the “good guys”..."

April 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

AFF Knows We Like to Watch

Local film Harmony and Me tops sneak peek at festival lineup

"...Why We Laugh), screenwriting (Peter Hanson's Tales From the Script), and the 2008 national party conventions (Barry Levinson's Poliwood)...."

Aug. 26, 2009 Screens Post by Kimberley Jones

Austin at Large: More Than We Could Imagine

At an unexpectedly delicate moment, Austinites can flip the script on public safety

"...community health workers (promotoras) in Austin's neighborhoods instead of cops. Or supporting all survivors of violence, not just those..."

April 23, 2021 News Column by Mike Clark-Madison

Austin Film Festival Announces Audience, Jury Awards

Killing of Kenneth Chamberlain takes top award in both

"...68-year-old Marine veteran in his White Plains home by cops, and the complete failure of the justice system to..."

Nov. 8, 2019 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Spiral

Chris Rock reinvents the horror morality tale for the BLM era

"...feeds. The Saw films have always been littered with cops, a majority of them good-leaning detectives trying to stop..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

DVD Watch: 'Hill Street Blues'

An aural history of the cop show that changed TV

"...piece, grimy, gritty, with an underlying sense that the cops were putting a band-aid over the issues. They were..."

April 29, 2014 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Film

Film Reviews

"...grab this shot? Just look at what Joe Eszterhas scripts did for the careers of Jennifer Beals (Flashdance) and..."

Sept. 22, 1995 News Feature

Film

Film Reviews

"...Lee Joint that feels more like a mainstream Hollywood cops-in-the-'hood picture and less like one of Lee's recurrent soapboxes:..."

Sept. 15, 1995 News Feature

Night Call

A Belgian locksmith has one night to recover cash he unwittingly helped steal

"...all, with Black Lives Matter protests going on, the cops aren’t likely to go light on a young Black..."

Jan. 17, 2025 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Venom: The Last Dance

One last pas de deux between Tom Hardy's reporter and the hellraising symbiote he plays bodily host to

"...universe. They’re hungover and on the run from the cops, the alien-hunters of Area 51 led by General Strickland..."

Oct. 25, 2024 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Lucky

Kafkaesque horror-comedy blows the rape-revenge fantasy apart

"...him, wait for the body to disappear, call the cops, and have breakfast. When she asks her husband about..."

March 5, 2021 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Assault on Precinct 13

This new version of John Carpenter's classic is superfluous in the extreme, and while it’s not technically a bad movie, per se, viewers unfamiliar with the film’s lineage will likely write it off as yet another midwinter also-ran, the sort of action film that never quite takes off and instead focuses on random gun battles and cheesy dialogue.

"...who finds himself and a clutch of prisoners and cops having the worst night of their lives when the..."

Jan. 21, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Why Darren Lynn Bousman Came Back For Spiral

Rock, racks, vices and games: the story behind the new Saw

"...a successor has taken his place, killing off corrupt cops. As always there are clues are being left, this..."

May 12, 2021 Screens Post by Richard Whittaker

Set It Off

This action-heist drama about four young African-American women from L.A.'s housing projects is as much a story about friendship as a story about crime.

"...this film are career-makers despite the fact that the script gives them too little to work with. This is..."

Nov. 8, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Linklater/Hawke/Black: The Complete Transcript

"...right! We didn't get serious but we had this script for a while...."

March 11, 2016 Screens Feature

Film Reviews

Recommended

"..."Kung Food" might be a silly, if somewhat accurate, description of The Chinese Feast since all the challenges, duels,..."

Oct. 13, 1995 News Feature

Fear & Loathing on the Inaugural Trail

One man's journey to the Bush inauguration confirms more than it denies.

"...like the one a few blocks away where the cops will crack some heads an hour or so later..."

Feb. 2, 2001 Features Feature by Michael Bolduc

Disappointments, Indoctrinations, Desperations

Letters At 3am

"...the end with a crone's voice; broke; hounded by cops; hooked on heroin; yet still when she sang she..."

Jan. 9, 1998 Column by Michael Ventura

Ashkal: The Tunisian Investigation

Tunisia's buried history burns in this chilling supernatural noir

"...a seeming suicide that baffles but doesn't shock the cops. After all, death by self-immolation is a part of..."

Aug. 25, 2023 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Watcher

Stalker thriller is coldly gorgeous and creepily enthralling

"...Zack Ford’s original script for Watcher was set in New York, but the..."

June 3, 2022 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Trial of the Chicago 7

The famous anti-protestor show trial recounted

"...the audience needs. Among the intense accuracy of Sorkin's script, there is still some dramatic license. Prosecutor Richard Schultz..."

Oct. 9, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

A Good Woman Is Hard to Find

British revenge drama mixes grit and slick

"...that she’s ignored in a neighborhood where the real cops don’t patrol opens up the movie to a Grand..."

May 1, 2020 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Cold Pursuit

Liam Neeson is Mr. Plow ... with a vengeance

"...Meanwhile debuting screenwriter Frank Baldwin punches up the English-language script with some appropriately mordant bons mots/morts. A vicious little..."

Feb. 15, 2019 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

If Beale Street Could Talk

Moonlight director Barry Jenkins adapts Baldwin's tale of love and racism

"...There's a dash of playwright Bertolt Brecht in the script's structure, a chapterlike feel built around major scenes, as..."

Dec. 21, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The First Purge

Blumhouse's political-horror franchise gets a timely prequel

"...Some treat it like Mardi Gras with even fewer cops. Some, like street corner dealer Isaiah (Wade), see it..."

July 6, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

Sicario: Day of the Soldado Director Finds International Themes to Tex-Mex Thriller

Stefano Sollima goes border to border

"...people-smuggling, and the sometimes porous line between soldiers and cops, Italian director Stefano Sollima hopes audiences will see global..."

June 29, 2018 Screens Feature by Richard Whittaker

Criminal

Kevin Costner is a prisoner who is implanted with a CIA op's knowledge

"...is built into the premise of Criminal, from a script by David Weisberg and the late Douglas Cook (who..."

April 22, 2016 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

The Cold Light of Day

A young businessman on vacation in Spain with his family becomes caught in a tangled web of espionage and intrigue in this lackluster follow-up by the director of JCVD.

"...yacht, only to find it mysteriously abandoned. The local cops are no help, but that doesn't matter because Martin..."

Sept. 14, 2012 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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