Under the Skin

"...pain to be of much help to the other. Writer-director Adler handles this potential hothouse atmosphere with graceful restraint..."

June 12, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

The legend of the gonzo journalist Hunter S. Thompson abides in the performance of Johnny Depp.

"...in continuous voiceovers, we get little sense of the writer and journalist who “shapes” this adventure into a thing..."

May 22, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

No Looking Back

"...reportedly became the most profitable film of 1995), triple-threat writer/director/actor Burns has been unjustly saddled with the attempt to..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Dancer, Texas Pop. 81

"...tale of opportunities that beckon and ties that bind. Writer/director Tim McCanlies proves that rural wit is not an..."

May 1, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Paul Monette: The Brink of Summer's End

"...of his slow death from AIDS, the resolutely good-humored writer Paul Monette savored the irony of reviews pegging him..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Sliding Doors

"...deceit. In a finely realized and multi-layered first film, writer-director Peter Howitt treats us to a clever and urbane..."

April 24, 1998 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Mrs. Dalloway

"...forlorn, but Gorris and co-conspirators Sue Gibson (cinematography) and writer Atkins have sucked the life out of Mrs. Dalloway's..."

March 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Habit

"...director for Fessenden and best cinematographer for Frank DeMarco.) Writer-director Fessenden plays Sam, a down-on-his-luck barkeep with a rapidly..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Kissing a Fool

"...insecure sportscaster Max asks his best friend, the super-sensitive writer Jay, to make a pass at his fiancée Sam,..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Afterglow

"...this week with an Oscar nomination. The film finds writer-director Alan Rudolph returning to the smart romantic stylings that..."

Feb. 13, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Deconstructing Harry

"...comes a movie like Deconstructing Harry, which marks the writer/director/actor's return to top form, once again using the stuff..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Gummo

White-trash hell from the writer of Kids.

"...though we tend not to advertise our enthusiasm). The writer of that abominably powerful ode to modern-day teenage wasteland..."

Nov. 28, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Washington Square

"...Holland (Olivier Olivier, The Secret Garden) is a fine writer herself, and she goes to great lengths to assure..."

Nov. 7, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation

"...tongue firmly planted in its cheek at all times. Writer-director Kim Henkel penned the original Chainsaw and this effort..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Most Wanted

"...having been written by a committee of 12-year-old boys. Writer and star Wayans is clearly a stone devotee of..."

Oct. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

She's So Lovely

"...single, supremely ironic fact: For a story by a writer with so much professed faith in the power of..."

Sept. 5, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Career Girls

"...to our younger selves. In this new film by writer-director Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies), Time's alchemy is brought..."

Aug. 22, 1997 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Schizopolis

Soderbergh works both sides of the camera as actor, writer, and director of this most personal – and idiosyncratic – of all his projects.

"...Soderbergh working both sides of the camera as actor, writer, and director in the creation of this most personal..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Keys to Tulsa

"...it makes you wanna holler. Director Leslie Greif, the writer of Less than Zero and the producer of Walker:..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Contact

Carl Sagan's novel about the celestial mysteries is embodied onscreen by Jodie Foster as the astronomer heroine and Matthew McConaughey as her spiritual counterpart from the other side of the fence

"...role as science's ambassador to the masses, Sagan and wife/co-writer Ann Druyan have given us an astronomer-heroine, Dr. Ellie..."

July 11, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Broken English

"...competing groups of cultural outsiders. The story by Kiwi director-writer Nicholas (Avondale Dogs) centers on young lovers Nina and..."

May 23, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Commandments

"...thing as Divine Intervention, it should have interceded before writer-director Daniel Taplitz's feature debut made it to the theatres...."

May 16, 1997 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Hard Eight

Bolstered by terrific performances, Anderson's debut film is a small, deceptively complex, mystery about some gamblers and their quasi-filial bonds.

"...mystery and provoke the imagination, Anderson earns comparison to writer-directors of the Soderbergh/Sayles/Dahl echelon, though he's not quite in..."

March 21, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Some Mother's Son

"...left 10 IRA inmates dead. With Some Mother’s Son, director/co-writer George (who also collaborated with writing partner Jim Sheridan..."

Jan. 31, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Beavis and Butt-Head Do America

"...videos, but you never even miss them. Judge and co-writer Joe Stillman keep the film moving at roughly the..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cyclo

"...uneasy slumbers. Set in modern-day Ho Chi Minh City, writer-director Hung (The Scent of Green Papaya) plunges the audience..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

My Life and Times With Antonin Artaud

"...the life of Robert Johnson. But darned if French director-writer Gerard Mordillat hasn't done exactly that. My Life, adapted..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Blush

"...occurs off-screen and in voiceover narration. Though director and co-writer Li Shaohong's film resists blame and finger-pointing, she manages..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Paris Was a Woman

"...women played central roles. But as director Schiller and writer Andrea Weiss remind us in Paris Was a Woman,..."

Dec. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Hustler White

LaBruce's third feature film layers its seamy walk on the wild side with a vivid portrait of a day in the life.

"...in a starring role. Here he plays an effete writer, Jürgen Anger, who comes to L.A. to pen his..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

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