Click

Click is a message movie whose real message isn't "Stop and Smell the Roses, Jackass," but "How to Manipulate the Audience in 12 E-Z Steps."

"...withered by age and regret, literally crawls through a driving rainstorm toward his forgotten family, dying all the way..."

June 23, 2006 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Rumor Has It ...

Fans of The Graduate should skip this strange comedy, which posits that the real-life inspiration for counterculture icon Benjamin Braddock grew up to be a cheesy, brainless high tech zillionaire doing yoga and driving a Mercedes around Half Moon Bay.

"...be a cheesy, brainless high-tech zillionaire doing yoga and driving a Mercedes around Half Moon Bay. Baby-boomer Reiner has..."

Dec. 30, 2005 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

High Tension

A gripping piece of splatterpunk, despite the fact that there's not much to it and the plot crumbles in the third act.

"...holiday only to find herself the fancy of a truck-driving maniac (Nahon) with a penchant for creatively murderous acts...."

June 10, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Letters at 3AM

Happiness costs. I know better now than to indulge this happiness, but still I drive on and I can't or won't stop. It isn't right that I and my Chevy, and you and your car, eat up the world's resources at the rate we do. We're driving in sin.

"...the world's resources at the rate we do. We're driving in sin. It's time we paid, and we will...."

May 27, 2005 Column by Michael Ventura

Walk on Water

A homophobic Israeli assassin insinuates himself into the life of a former SS officer's gay grandson in hopes of learning the Nazi's location in a well-intentioned but ultimately simplistic plea for tolerance all around.

"...& Jagger a few years back, is intent on driving home his simplistic belief that the whole Israeli/Palestinian brouhaha..."

May 6, 2005 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Cajun Coeur

A few detours on your roadtrip to Jazz Fest and Festival International de Louisiane

"...our neighboring state than bugs on a windshield after driving through the Henderson Swamp...."

April 22, 2005 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Friday Night

A woman has a fling with a stranger in this thoughtful French import.

"...taking a bath and getting into her car and driving off. The images and dialogue are minimal; in fact,..."

Aug. 22, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Identity

"...and utterly anonymous motel to seek shelter from a driving rainstorm. The roads (heh, heh) are washed out, and..."

April 25, 2003 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Life of David Gale

"...(a recurrent location) then it will have fulfilled its driving need to serve the public good. At least when..."

Feb. 28, 2003 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

XXX

"...underground extreme sports fanatic given to stealing Corvettes and driving them off bridges while he parachutes off the car's..."

Aug. 9, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Time Out (L'emploi Du Temps)

"...and sweater-clad, spends his day sleeping in his car, driving around aimlessly in the fog, and singing along to..."

June 28, 2002 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Resident Evil

Wild, senseless, sexy adaptation of the popular zombie shoot-'em-up video game

"...a highway abutment at 90 miles an hour is “driving,” and to take the metaphor even further, this, too,..."

March 15, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Vanilla Sky

"...maybe -- when a jealous ex commits suicide by driving her car off a bridge with him along for..."

Dec. 14, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Joy Ride

"...or another it's happened to all of us: You're driving cross-country in your new '71 Chrysler Newport with your..."

Oct. 5, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Driven

"...fast, faster, fastest world of professional open-seat race car driving, Driven crawls by like a Yugo with a serious..."

April 27, 2001 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ready to Rumble

"...nutcrackers) and the comic consequences of a career spent driving a septic-tank truck. David Arquette and Scott Caan play..."

April 14, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Double Jeopardy

"...thousand, Alex. On second thought, don't bother. Bruce Beresford's (Driving Miss Daisy) Double Jeopardy is predictable piffle, a comically..."

Sept. 24, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

King of Masks

"...twists and turns that fate can take is Tian-Ming's driving force here, and he layers them out before us..."

June 11, 1999 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist

"...finding artistic validation in his audiences' heaving stomachs. The driving forces behind Dick's courageous, defiantly candid film are curiosity..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Carpool

"...to school and the harried parent (Paymer) who's reluctantly driving the vehicle. By the time the movie concludes, the..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Mr. Wrong

"...Whitman Crawford (Pullman), a handsome, sensitive, rich, romantic, Jaguar convertible-driving poet. Sparks fly, flowers are delivered by the dozens,..."

Feb. 23, 1996 Movie Review by Hollis Chacona

Sister My Sister

"...Walters, Joely Richardson, Jodhi May and Sophie Thursfield. While driving out of the parking lot after seeing Nancy Meckler's..."

Sept. 29, 1995 Movie Review by Alison Macor

Blue Sky

"...through Blue Sky in which Carly Marshall (Lange) is driving with her two daughters to Nevada. Their blue and..."

Oct. 7, 1994 Movie Review by Alison Macor

A Good Man in Africa

"...Gossett, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer and Sarah-Jane Fenton. The director of Driving Miss Daisy makes his second safari into Africa (the..."

Sept. 16, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Roadracers

"...the 1970s New World drive-in exploitation movie). A wild, hot-rod-driving, guitar-playing, black jacket-wearing rebel named Dude (Arquette) is being..."

July 22, 1994 Movie Review by Louis Black

Suture

"...of dying in the explosion (in which he is driving Vincent's car and carrying his identity papers), Clay survives..."

April 29, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

A Better Tomorrow II

"...but instead of killing him, they opt instead for driving him mad by killing everybody else. Now a drooling..."

Jan. 28, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Ghost in the Machine

"...he's nearly killed in a bizarre bit of reckless driving and carted off to the nearest pseudo-scientific hospital, where,..."

Dec. 31, 1993 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Speed Racer Show

"...the image of a dad literally horse-whipping his racecar driving daughter and her vehicle is an astonishing bracer). Two..."

Oct. 29, 1993 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Striking Distance

"...to jail. The same weekend, his father is killed driving with Hardy in the pursuit of a serial killer...."

Sept. 24, 1993 Movie Review by Louis Black

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