The Importance of Being Earnest

For better or worse, Oliver Parker's adaptation of Oscar Wilde's comedy of mistaken identities liberates the play from its drawing-room trappings.

"...play from its drawing-room trappings and in injecting ill-fitting fantasy sequences and a tedious sight gag involving tattoos. Wilde..."

May 31, 2002 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Metropolis

"...of the great silent classics, Metropolis is a futuristic fantasy about the mechanization of society. The new print of..."

May 13, 2002 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Collateral Damage

"...of all things), plays like a bad adolescent revenge fantasy on Ritalin, all jagged editorial edges and silly, pumped-up..."

Feb. 8, 2002 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Lost and Delirious

"...and Delirious could have come off like a fetishist's fantasy or the stuff of late-night scrambled porn. That at..."

July 20, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Boys Life 3

"...twist intended to poke holes in Every (Straight) Man's Fantasy. (A theatrical-length version of the story seems to have..."

April 20, 2001 Movie Review by Marrit Ingman

Bridget Jones's Diary

romantic fantasy as it is social satire.

"...risky; this Bridget Jones's Diary is as much romantic fantasy as it is social satire, but more to the..."

April 13, 2001 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

Get Over It

"...And don't get me started on the truly lovely fantasy sequences throughout (set in the Midsummer dream world and..."

March 9, 2001 Movie Review by Kimberley Jones

Rugrats in Paris: The Movie

Fun for kids and grownups.

"...ageism, et cetera) and some very funny flights of fantasy that taken together are unlike any other kid's show..."

Nov. 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Highlander: Endgame

"...sheath those deep-drinking medieval broadswords. The most improbably successful fantasy adventure franchise in movie/TV history is shutting down for..."

Sept. 8, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Titan A.E.

"...approach shows in every scene of this ambitious, teenage fantasy, and unfortunately results in an animated epic that pilfers..."

June 16, 2000 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Frequency

"...reconfirms the classic Hollywood axiom that the dumbness of sci-fi/fantasy movies increases in direct proportion to the profundity of..."

April 28, 2000 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Wirey Spindell

"...an utter mystery. The story is a complete male fantasy about women who are dying to make love to..."

March 17, 2000 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Drive Me Crazy

"...Me Crazy is simple: to sell tickets by selling fantasy. It's about as tough as peddling drugs to a..."

Oct. 8, 1999 Movie Review by Sarah Hepola

The Ghosts of Dickens' Past

"...Christopher Heyerdahl. Not reviewed at press time. This family drama/fantasy film is a co-production of Canada's CINAR television production..."

Feb. 19, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lethal Weapon 4

"...turned the once-promising Batman franchise into a personal masturbation fantasy has a once-proud series devolved so awfully. Donner, I..."

July 17, 1998 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Big Lebowski

A case of mistaken identity embroils the supremely go-with-the-flow character of the Dude (Bridges) in an intersecting mix of kidnapping, pornography, German nihilists, sultry women, gumshoes, missing money, and missing toes.

"...Lebowski are a couple of visually wild and elaborate fantasy/dream sequences, one of them a Busby Berkeley bowling/porn phantasmagoria..."

March 6, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Ma Vie en Rose

This Belgian film is a warm, startling, funny, and realistic study of what happens when a 7-year-old boy is convinced, beyond all reason and outward evidence to the contrary, that he is really a girl.

"...part human comedy, part family drama, and part storybook fantasy, Ma Vie en Rose is an original, thought-provoking, and..."

Feb. 27, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Star Kid

"...The River Wild), stars in this pre-adolescent male sci-fi fantasy about a seventh-grader who hops inside a big robotic..."

Jan. 16, 1998 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Butch Camp

"...world as we know it; it's an extreme comic fantasy riff on a genuinely emotional subject, but above all,..."

Oct. 3, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Masterminds

"...new Star Wars prequel) has created a fluffy, teen-empowerment fantasy that manages to remain at least somewhat engaging despite..."

Aug. 29, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Irma Vep

Assayas' camerawork and editing recall the glory days of the French New Wave, while Cheung holds the center as an actress caught up in the behind-the-scenes mayhem on a creative film set.

"...remaking Louis Feuillade's masterpiece of French silent cinema, the fantasy serial Les Vampires. Having seen Cheung in The Heroic..."

Aug. 1, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

"...is it even Jaws, but it is pure Spielbergian fantasy, and as such, The Lost World may just be..."

May 30, 1997 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Dragon Chronicles

"...effects weren't enough to save this weirdly opulent 1994 swordsman/fantasy extravaganza from crashing and burning at Asian box offices...."

May 9, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Portrait of a Lady

Jane Campion brings her modern sensibilities to this story of Henry James’ 1870s heroine Isabel Archer, a young, sharp-minded, American woman abroad who inherits unexpected wealth and uses it to live as she likes, traveling and rejecting numerous suitors until she falls into an unwise marriage that nearly becomes her ruination.

"...psychosexual fervor to the story and include several Freudian fantasy sequences as Isabel makes her way through the world..."

Jan. 17, 1997 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Preacher's Wife

"...single long-ago viewing of The Bishop's Wife, a 1947 fantasy/comedy starring Cary Grant and Loretta Young, are too vague..."

Dec. 13, 1996 Movie Review by Russell Smith

Iceman Cometh

"...Biao, Maggie Chueng Man-Yuk and Yuen Wah. A dizzying fantasy flick that never takes itself too seriously, Iceman Cometh..."

Aug. 30, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Frighteners

"...satire Meet The Feebles to the passionate “true crime” fantasy Heavenly Creatures -- has made the unlikely leap into..."

July 19, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl wrote the screenplay for his so-called children’s story, and the result is more psychedelic than sugary.

"...fans with the opportunity to check out this 1971 fantasy musical. Those unfamiliar with the story should note a..."

May 17, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Substitute

"...Dangerous Minds, despite being an even sillier white bread fantasy. Like that film, The Substitute features a militarily trained..."

April 26, 1996 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

Institute Benjamenta

"...is a triumph of the surreal, a masterwork of fantasy, and a breathtakingly tenebrous walk off the beaten path..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

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