Big Trouble

"...beatific aura recall a certain major Western religious figure. With the shade of Billy Wilder now watching over my..."

April 12, 2002 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Thomas in Love

"...Benoît Verhaert. For a film that takes place entirely within the confines of the main character's computer screen, the..."

Sept. 7, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Tailor of Panama

"...exteriors in Panama City, and the film is saturated with the area's muggy panache. Everybody sweats, even Brosnan, which..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Mr. Accident

"...a word, could be described as underwhelming. Not familiar with Yahoo Serious? A thumbnail of his career would point..."

Dec. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Crew

"...real problem, I'm guessing, is much more basic. To wit: Most folks are just plain bored -- and I..."

Sept. 1, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Screwed

"...screen. Screwed aims to be a contemporary screwball comedy with a wacky internal logic that propels the action forward...."

May 19, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

High Fidelity

"...interior monologues and lists are transferred from the novel with most of their acerbic wit and music-drenched knowledge intact...."

March 31, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Final Destination

"...so are they. Fate, obviously unreceptive to improvisational diddling with its grand design, sets straight to work correcting the..."

March 24, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Knockout

"...Conchita Alonso. The history of boxing cinema is littered with enough TKOs – from Huntz Hall and the Dead..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

What Planet Are You From?

"...filmmaking styles), has fashioned a throwback to the mid-Seventies with What Planet Are You From?, a film that answers..."

March 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Topsy-Turvy

"...dramas (Secrets & Lies, High Hopes) than his dalliances with the stage, but the fact is that Leigh came..."

Feb. 4, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

All About My Mother

All About My Mother merges all of Almodóvar's noted preoccupations with women on the verge of nervous breakdowns, screwball melodramas, and flamboyant visual touches with a cohesive – and universal – story about the faces and roles we all adopt in public.

"...Azorin and Rosa Maria Sardá. After years of flirting with international popularity only to be relegated, generally, to the..."

Jan. 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Cabaret Balkan

"...of interwoven vignettes. The episodes all have different tales with different characters, although several of the characters wander between..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Simon Sez

"...Emma Sjoberg and Dennis Rodman. Ain't capitalism great? Armed with only marginal (at best) résumés and the fading notoriety..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Acid House

"...Scottish novelist Irvine Welsh's collection of the same name with Danny Boyle's groundbreaking Welsh-adapted tale of junkies down and..."

Oct. 1, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Book of Life

"...keeps on his desktop The Book of Life, complete with the dreaded Seven Seals and the names of the..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Teaching Mrs. Tingle

"...Watson, Helen Mirren and Katie Holmes. The scribe who with Scream reinvented the slasher film for the Nineties also..."

Aug. 20, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Inspector Gadget

"...pines after the beautiful Dr. Brenda Bradford (Fisher) who, with her father, Artemis, is working on lifelike robotics that..."

July 30, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

An Ideal Husband

The Oscar Wilde drama about deceit and honor is presented by a solid cast.

"...Vaughan. It would seem, given Oscar Wilde's immortal rapier wit and cinema's recent affinity for clever period comedy, that..."

July 2, 1999 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Relax … It's Just Sex

"...may not be earth-shattering, to see the subject treated with such humanity and humor is a gratifying, even touching,..."

June 25, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Love Letter

"...Stuart. “Darling, do you know how much in love with you I am?” Well, darling, who could resist such..."

May 21, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

God Said “HA!”

"...cervical cancer even as her brother Mike was wrestling with brain cancer, and the humor and compassion with which..."

May 7, 1999 Movie Review by Robert Faires

The King and I

"...it's one I'm happy to applaud. Not so Rich's dimwitted rewrite job that alters the original plotline almost beyond..."

March 19, 1999 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Rushmore

A modern cult classic.

"...the underachieving soul of academia, his plate piled high with extracurricular activities (French Club, Fencing Club, Double-Team Dodgeball Society,..."

Feb. 5, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cruise

"...more often than he realizes. Combining the wry, outrageous wit of a modern-day Oscar Wilde with a healthy dose..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Eel

"...version of small-town life, however, Imamura treats his characters with a sublime, gentle wit. Yakusho (Shall We Dance?) plays..."

Nov. 20, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Life Is Beautiful

Life Is Beautiful is the drama every comic probably wishes he had made. In this life-affirming Italian "concentration-camp comedy," Benigni uses the Holocaust as a backdrop for telling a heartfelt story about a father who protects his son from the gas chambers by the use of the only weapons at his command: his quick imagination, outlandish buffoonery, and scrappy determination.

"...is half full; it's an attitudinal choice to side with the positive because the only other option is the..."

Nov. 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Wilde

"...focuses on Wilde's rise to fame as a great wit, writer, and dandy, as well as his subsequent slide..."

June 19, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Perfect Murder

"...Gretchen Palmer, Tommy “tiny” Lister, Helen Martin and John Witherspoon. For all of its brutality, and it has plenty,..."

June 5, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81

"...looks as if the skeptical bookie will prosper. Faced with imminent departure, each boy struggles with the childhood vow,..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

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