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Dee Snider's Strangeland
"...elements from The Silence of the Lambs, Seven, and various cyber thrillers, StrangeLand is the tale of Captain Howdy..."

Oct. 9, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

There's Something About Mary
A classic from the kingpins of comedy.
"...minstrels who pop up (à la Cat Ballou) in various scenes to provide running ironic commentaries – in verse...."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Sonatine
"...slugs in the course of this story, and while various stock characters and situations do come into play, little..."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

American Job
"...workplaces makes plain the tedium and monotony of Randy's various jobs. In Randy's first job at a plastics factory,..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Bent
"...scene, they stand side by side and vocalize the various aspects of making love, eventually climaxing without ever having..."

Feb. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fetishes
"...him access into the homes and apartments of the various mistresses, where, sadly, nothing much is revealed. Despite the..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Illtown
"...drifts back and forth through time as well as various realities, leaving you vaguely groggy and unsure, which mirrors,..."

Jan. 30, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mortal Kombat: Annihilation
"...(I kid you not) and crotch shots of the various fighting beauties and you have something that makes no..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mouth to Mouth
"...might (and he does try, flooding the screen with various neons and primaries, which only ends up drawing attention..."

Nov. 21, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The End of Violence
"...dramatic meditation on the intersecting effects of violence on various people's lives, one of whom is a successful Hollywood..."

Oct. 24, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Haunted World of Edward D. Wood, Jr.
"...hoopla that surrounds him these days. Thompson's movie includes various re-enactments of classic scenes in Wood's life, but the..."

Oct. 10, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Game
"...everything from the cult TV show The Prisoner to various nods to Hitchcock, though it's certainly Fincher's game all..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Spike & Mike's '97 Festival of Animation
"...Directed by: Various. Another day, another animation festival from those wacky guys..."

Sept. 12, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Saint Clara
"...age-specific. Folman and Sivan then go on to add various surreal highlights to Saint Clara's atmospheric locales, such as..."

July 25, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Sleep
"...after a combination of some disastrous test screenings and various historical exigencies. One primary motivator was the enormous success..."

June 6, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Brother's Kiss
"...Kiss drowns you in subtleties that range from the various Brooklynese dialects (some of which are occasionally impenetrable) to..."

May 16, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

8 Heads in a Duffel Bag
"...Crammed with bad reaction shots of various flustered people discovering the gory goods, 8 Heads is..."

April 18, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Long Kiss Goodnight
Davis plays a suburban mom, amnesiac, and trained-to-kill bottle blonde.
"...will subside in coming weeks as the silliness of various plot points and the movie's awkward vacillation between spoof..."

Oct. 11, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Trainspotting
Unrepentant Scottish junkies are observed with a mordant eye.
"...an alcoholic who never touches heroin. Trainspotting plainly includes various heroin-related tragedies such as AIDS, crib death, and personal..."

Aug. 2, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
"...Wellman never did the Hollywood social scene, or the various “tough guys” such as Clint Eastwood and the Roberts..."

July 12, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cold Comfort Farm
"...novel, which is, among other things, a satire of various literary genres. Cold Comfort Farm is also about a..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Alison Macor

The Phantom
"...comic-strip adventures, the film's plot seems cobbled together from various sources. There are shades of Indiana Jones here (I..."

June 14, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Reggae Movie
"...reggae music, doing their thing live on stage from various locales around the world. Director Rovins doesn't make any..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Unforgettable
"...and so Krane must continue injecting himself with the various memories of persons related to the crime. Neurotropical IV..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Twelve Monkeys
Gilliam cloaks a startlingly effective rumination on the nature of sanity and madness in the shroud of a sci-fi thriller.
"...mysterious 12 Monkeys takes him in and out of various stages of madness? reality? some bizarre netherworld? Gilliam keeps..."

Jan. 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Halloween: The Curse of Michael Myers
"...Haddonfield, Illinois, slicing, dicing, and making julienne fries of various teens and authority figures. This time, however, he's aided..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Fun
"...outright fantasy, Fun goes straight for the jugular, using various cinema verité styles including hand-held camera work and 16mm..."

Aug. 18, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

I Am Cuba
I Am Cuba was actually shot as an elaborate pro-Castro piece of Soviet propaganda, but instead it's as if everyone in question just went gaga, drunk on the sheer beauty of Cuba and making up new film techniques as they went along. The film is a stylistically brilliant quartet of vignettes set during the waning years of the Batista regime. The interconnecting stories that propel the film along were written by Russian poet laureate Yevgeny Yevtushenko.
"...Calzatti uses everything from huge, extended crane shots to various filters to bizarre and highly experimental camera angles you've..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Last Hero in China
"...kung-fu classic. Watching Li stumble his way through the various drunken fighting styles, combined with some inventive wire work,..."

July 28, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's Box
"...track him down. The first installment unfolds gradually as various supernatural beings descend on Joker's camp, all attempting to..."

May 19, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

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