Our Lady of the Assassins
"...shooting style that conveys a vérité immediacy and chaotic truth. The movie was filmed with high-definition video cameras that..."
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Oct. 19, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
All Over the Guy
"...his instinct for humor. Quite often, there's as much truth to be found in a good laugh as there..."
Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Swordfish
"...purely plot concerns, merely ancillary to the film. In truth, Swordfish is just a vehicle for Travolta to act..."
June 13, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones
One Night at McCool's
"...with its presentation of various versions of the same truth. A veteran of commercial and video work, first-time feature..."
April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Left Behind
"...plays TV news reporter Buck Williams who seeks the truth – which turns out to be some kind of..."
Feb. 9, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
This martial arts film succeeds as a great pulp yarn, a historical drama, an epic love story, a humorous action tale, and a modern feminist fable.
"...some as rediscovering his roots. Although there may be truth in this opinion, it discounts the revelations, craftsmanship, and..."
Jan. 12, 2001 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Just Looking
"...with these four kids have a real ring of truth. Others fall flat, and make us want to remind..."
Dec. 15, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The JFKonspiracy
Kathy McCarty wants to know "Why?" Why is wanting to know more
about the Kennedy Assassination such social suicide?
"..."All we want is to know the truth," she continued. "It is our right as Americans to..."
Nov. 10, 2000 Features Feature by Kathy McCarty
Men of Honor
"...power will topple to the ground, smitten by the Truth. (Hal Holbrook is on hand to take the toppling..."
Nov. 10, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
The Legend of Bagger Vance
"...that behind every cliché lies a deep or hidden truth, but finding them in The Legend of Bagger Vance..."
Nov. 3, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Pola X
Carax's follow-up to The Lovers on the Bridge is based on Herman Melville's novel Pierre, or the Ambiguities, and is rich in images and ideas. A man who shuffles between the houses of his mother and fiancée becomes involved with a woman who says she is his illegitimate sister.
"...interesting bedfellow to the filmmaker's need to expose the truth behind our lies. Pola X rises from the chasm..."
Oct. 27, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
The Interview
"...Not merely dialogues aimed at uncovering legal or cosmic truth, the prolonged “interviews” that constitute most of the film..."
April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Goldfinger
Two words: Pussy Galore. Plus, Q brings out the Aston Martin for the first time, and Shirley Bassey shatters the speakers with the consummate Bond song.
"...this film to distract the audience from the horrifying truth: Bond saves the world by doing absolutely nothing except..."
Feb. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Matt Williams
Eternity and a Day
"...romantic vision of art as a quest for ultimate truth, they seem to belong to a different age. It's..."
Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Get Real
"...inescapable realization that it is better to live the truth than to live a lie. Like the similarly themed..."
June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Windhorse
"...of a calm, buoyant faith that good, fortified by truth and courage, is unconquerable. Like the tiny, prayer-inscribed paper..."
May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Ringmaster
"...controversial trash-talk show. But this is hardly a Madonna-like Truth or Dare backstage enterprise. Springer's film takes a fictionalized..."
Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Orgazmo
"...an unlikely box-office sensation, Joe must hide the embarrassing truth from Lisa (he tells her he's starring in Death..."
Oct. 23, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Touch of Evil
"...cop Hank Quinlan (Welles) who is searching out the truth about a lurid double-homicide in a seedy, El Norte..."
Oct. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Broadway Damage
"...and Robert auditioning for an unspecified stage production. If truth be said, they're not very good; in fact, they're..."
July 24, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Chinese Box
"...to conveying through sheer emotional force all the elusive truth that Wang and co-screenwriters Jean-Claude Carriere (Buñuel's longtime collaborator)..."
May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Men With Guns
"...of exploration through the impenetrable jungle in search of truth, but comes up with a symbolic indictment of Men..."
April 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
I Love You, I Love You Not
"...were unable to tap the deep artery of human truth flowing beneath their story's skin. It wouldn't be the..."
April 3, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith
The Apostle
"...answers, which gives The Apostle a vibrant ring of truth. (This integrity may not become apparent until after the..."
Feb. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
"...-- conclusive proof, as if any were needed, that truth is indeed stranger (and more perversely humorous) than fiction...."
Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov
Washington Square
"...the sophisticated, power-driven world around her and the simple truth and goodness her heart desires. Catherine Sloper (Leigh) is..."
Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Kicked in the Head
"...frenetic yet slight New York City story about love, truth, and petty gangsters. The characters are all mighty colorful..."
Sept. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
Dirty Dancing
"...'neath its candy-coated shell lie several solid grains of truth -- not to mention some fab choreography, a solid-gold..."
Sept. 19, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten
She's So Lovely
"...with so much professed faith in the power of truth to bubble up out of apparent chaos, there's hardly..."
Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith
Saint Clara
"...systematic scholastic anarchy. Nothing could be further from the truth -- these kids know exactly what time it is,..."
