Daddy Day Care

"...tykes in Happy, Texas, is called on for similar service here, although his material isn’t quite as funny in..."

May 9, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Table Fable

When a waiter forgets the customer and the service, even good food can be tough to swallow, as Mick Vann discovered on a recent visit to the Tea House.

"...appear too esoteric. The food is fine, but the service can be a drawback...."

Jan. 10, 2003 Food Feature by Mick Vann

Maid in Manhattan

"...if the film has followed the motto of the service staff at the fictional Park Avenue hotel where Marisa..."

Dec. 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shallow Hal

"...premise that is also thoroughly disingenuous. While paying lip service to the notion that beauty is only skin deep,..."

Nov. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Hearts in Atlantis

"...gang-press old Mr. Brautigan -- a psychic -- into service for the red, white, and blue. What was surreal..."

Sept. 28, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tailor of Panama

"...as a suave superspy toiling for Her Majesty's secret service? Now there's a stretch. Actually, once you get past..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Split Decision

"...of yet) unsuccessful battle with the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Chavez's story resonates on levels both political and personal;..."

Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Lifestyle: Group Sex in the Suburbs

"...behind closed doors. While there's plenty of, ah, lip service given to the practice of wife-swapping having saved marriages..."

Dec. 29, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport

Documentary about the effort to place children of European Jews during WWII within safe homes in England.

"...it goes without saying that Harris performs a great service in the eyes of history with his film, which..."

Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lost Souls

"...a film expend so much energetic imagery in the service of so barely serviceable a storyline. Characters -- seemingly..."

Oct. 20, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Steal This Movie!

"...If nothing else, Steal This Movie! provides an invaluable service in educating a new generation about the man, the..."

Sept. 22, 2000 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

God's Army

"...it neither makes you want to join up for service as Mormon missionary nor is it so terribly preachy..."

Aug. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deterrence

"...by a blizzard with only his aides, his Secret Service contingent, a network documentarian, and the diner's sparse patrons..."

April 21, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Mod Squad

"...series about three young petty street criminals pressed into service as undercover cops. Like: What's the concept here? Affectionate,..."

March 26, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

I Went Down

"...impulsive act, Git is forced to perform a small service for Dublin crime boss Tom French (Doyle) -- pick..."

July 3, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Postman

"...2013, Costner's Gordon Krantz happens upon a wrecked Postal Service vehicle and pilfers the dead driver's uniform and mailbag...."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

A Single Girl

"...dashes off to begin her new job as a room-service waiter in a four-star hotel, promising Rémi that she..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Female Perversions

"...has its erotic aspects but they're all there to service the movie's line of inquiry into how social conditioning..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

First Kid

"...topical and, better yet, amusing. Sinbad plays a Secret Service agent, Sam Simms, who longs for the plum detail..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam

"...look at the (mis)adventures of Charlie Sheen's favorite outcall service. Fleiss, the daughter of a prominent Beverly Hills physician,..."

June 21, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Girl 6

"...door. Before long, 6 is the toast of the service, and before long, she's obliterated the line between fantasy..."

March 29, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Art for Teachers of Children

"...the adolescent girls in the dorm “performed an important service. We needed to know that we existed.” Jennifer is..."

Sept. 22, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

From Beijing With Love

"...plays a scumbag pork vendor mistakenly called into government service as he attempts to recover a stolen dinosaur head..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

A Million to Juan

"...Los Angeles, who, thanks to the Immigration and Naturalization Service's outdated bureaucracy, is considered an illegal alien even though..."

May 20, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

D2: The Mighty Ducks

"...movie about a high-and-mighty lawyer forced to do community service coaching a motley team of kid hockey players in..."

April 1, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

On Deadly Ground

"...certain things must be answered, like Seagal's environmental lip service that is utterly mocked by the movie's need to..."

Feb. 25, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Calendar

"...home having dinner with a woman from an escort service. As part of a ritual, she asks to use..."

Feb. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Schindler's List

Spielberg marshals all his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama.

"...his formidable storytelling talents and puts them at the service of an epic human drama. His attention to the..."

Jan. 14, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Colin Nutley's House of Angels

"...man has finally “bought the farm.” During the funeral service, a pretty young blonde woman (Bergstrom) enters the church..."

Nov. 26, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ernest Rides Again

"...by an evil art collector and the British Secret Service, the two bumbling heroes struggle against vacuous dialogue and..."

Nov. 12, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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