Private

This Italian film presents a modern parable about a Palestinian family, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers.

"...a Palestinian family of seven, whose home in the West Bank is abruptly taken over by Israeli soldiers, Costanzo..."

March 10, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada

Tommy Lee Jones has made a modern Western in the culturally askew tradition of Peckinpah, Huston, and Boetticher. Don't let the near-impossible-to-remember title keep you away from this singular and slightly surreal scorcher.

"...10 years ago he did direct the fine made-for-TV Western The Good Old Boys), Jones has made a modern..."

Feb. 24, 2006 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paradise Now

Inside the mind of a Palestinian suicide bomber: That’s the guarded territory broached in Paradise Now, a film fashioned as a thriller rather than a psychological study.

"...in Paradise Now as two young men from the West Bank city of Nablus are given 24 hours' notice..."

Nov. 18, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Green Street Hooligans

The psychotically testosterized world of British football hooliganism, with its crimson tide of fist-in-mouth male bonding and lager-lout bad manners, is captured in this post LOTR Elijah Wood movie.

"...in the bloody claret colors of the UK’s legendary West Ham United Football Club. American roughnecks who think their..."

Oct. 7, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room

Oscar winner documents the collapse of Enron in vivid detail and with cinematic flourish.

"...traders callously manipulating the price of oil on the West Coast as California suffered the consequences with rolling blackouts...."

April 29, 2005 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Festival Express

Hurtling across Canada during the summer of 1970 was a trainload of musicians – among them Janis Joplin, Jerry Garcia, and Buddy Guy – who partied and played music ’til the very end of the line.

"...of. The setting is 1970 on a train careening west for five days across the Canadian countryside. Among the..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Brown Bunny

Vincent Gallo's notorious film turns out to be an anti-action road trip that has the feeling of a fever dream.

"...who, after losing a race in New Jersey, heads west to Los Angeles, where he hooks up with an..."

Oct. 1, 2004 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Connie and Carla

Witnessing a mob hit can be a real drag.

"...hot on their trail, Connie and Carla flee to West Hollywood and go incognito as a drag-queen act that..."

April 23, 2004 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Touching the Void

Two glacier climbers face the worst and live to tell about it in this harrowingly intimate documentary report.

"...when in 1985 they decided to climb the near-vertical west face of the 21,000-foot-high Siula Grande in the Peruvian..."

Feb. 20, 2004 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Missing

Ron Howard directs Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett in tough Western drama.

"...John Wayne’s final movie, The Shootist, helms this new Western. Not only is there the matter of cultural legacy,..."

Nov. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Once Upon a Time in the Midlands

British romantic tale uses the gunslinger mythos as a means to explore romance and regret.

"...either Sergio Leone’s Once Upon a Time in the West or Robert Rodriguez’s Once Upon a Time in Mexico,..."

Nov. 14, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Wonderland

Dull take on real-life murder mystery has one titillating factor: the involvement of former porn star John Holmes.

"...his period re-creation of the slapdash, rotten magic of West Hollywood in the early years of the Reagan administration..."

Oct. 24, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Circuit

"...budget-conscious drama, set amid the throbbing, drug-fueled subculture of West Hollywood and its traveling “circuit” parties, is awfully well-intentioned..."

Aug. 23, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Mothman Prophecies

"...assumed destination to the little town of Point Pleasant, West Virginia, he becomes convinced that his wife's bizarre pre-death..."

Feb. 1, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Punks

"...four friends in the stylish gay enclave of WeHo. (West Hollywood, that is, for those of us who do..."

Nov. 16, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

The Brothers

"...question are Jackson Smith (Chestnut), Brian Palmer (Bellamy), Derrick West (Hughley), and Terry White (Moore) -- a lover, a..."

March 23, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Urban Cowboy

Only a couple years removed from his screen super-success in Saturday Night Fever, Travolta struts his way through Urban Cowboy’s modern-West parable about machismo, cowboy manqué, and mechanical bulls set among petrochemical workers in Pasadena, Texas.

"...Night Fever, Travolta struts his way through Urban Cowboy’s modern-West parable about machismo, cowboy manqué, and mechanical bulls. Travolta..."

Oct. 25, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Shanghai Noon

"...have been a dry and dusty parody of the Western genre into a whole new breed of neurotic period..."

May 26, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Anna and the King

"...more emphasis to Siam's internecine political rumblings and the East-West social conflict, and also provides the great Chinese actor..."

Dec. 31, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

October Sky

"...Sky, the true story of Homer Hickam, a Coalwood, West Virginia kid with a dream, is ploddingly earthbound. That..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Hi-Lo Country

"...Hi-Lo Country is about the twilight of the Old West, a world left in the dust of post-WWII modernizations...."

Jan. 22, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Rounders

"...electrified the screen with his neo-noir thrillers Red Rock West and The Last Seduction. Rounders provides a total immersion..."

Sept. 11, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Almost Heroes

"...blaze a trail to the virgin sands of the West Coast. Racing them all the way were Hunt &..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Woo

"...a hoot. She has the same sexy electricity Mae West had, only in a more compact package, but the..."

May 15, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Deep in the Heart (Of Texas)

"...adaptation of a legendary Austin stage play, In the West. Developed during the mid- to late Eighties by the..."

May 8, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Tin Cup

"...dialogue, her comic timing lost somewhere in the vast West Texas landscape. Bull Durham had a fabulous, witty script..."

Aug. 16, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

It Ain't the Meat, It's the Notion

Smokin' to the East, Smokin' to the West

"...with Maurice Bessinger, the born-again maybe-ex-segregationist barbeque king of West Columbia, S.C. They eat snoots in St. Louis, barbacoa..."

June 14, 1996 Books Feature by Ed Ward

At Ground Zero

"...director Schlattman. The highway he travels stretches from the West Coast into the Midwest, with his camera focused on..."

May 3, 1996 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

"...duties, tries to find his way back to the West. As he traverses the wintry landscape, he asks directions..."

April 5, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Unforgettable

"...Dahl, whose previous efforts include the brilliant Red Rock West and The Last Seduction. Liotta, looking like he has..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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