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The Red Dwarf
"...Arno Chevrier, Dyna Gauzy, Anita Ekberg and Jean-Yves Thual. The Red Dwarf pretends to lofty themes -- something about..."

Aug. 27, 1999 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Xiu Xiu: The Sent Down Girl
"...Lu Lu, Lopsang and Gao Qiang. Actress Joan Chen (The Last Emperor, Twin Peaks) makes an impressive debut as..."

Aug. 6, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Lovers of the Arctic Circle
Using impressionistic and circular stragies, this Spanish film tells the story of two lovers from the time they meet at the age of 8 to the age of 25, when they may or may not meet again.
"...Victor Hugo Oliveira. Some narratives are straightforward and relate their characters' stories in a point-by-point fashion. Others tell their..."

June 18, 1999 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Beaumarchais Scoundrel
"...Michel Blanc and Michel Serrault. As portrayed in yet another costume drama from France, Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais..."

Dec. 26, 1997 Movie Review by Steve Davis

Free Willy 3: The Rescue
"...Richter, Vincent Berry, Patrick Kilpatrick and August Schellenberg. Among the fictional cetacean set, Moby Dick still commands all the..."

Aug. 15, 1997 Movie Review by Russell Smith

The Crucible
"...how to film a drama about mass hysteria without the end product becoming shrill and hysterical? It's a problem..."

Dec. 20, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Search for One-Eye Jimmy
"...Jackson, John Turturro and Jennifer Beals. A curious little independent film straight out of Brooklyn that would have worked..."

Sept. 6, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Great White Hype
"...Marin, Jamie Foxx, Damon Wayans and Salli Richardson. Both the boxing industry and American race relations take hard left..."

May 10, 1996 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Young Poisoner's Handbook
"...Coleman, Paul Stacey and Frank Mills. Loosely based on the real-life misadventures of Great Britain's notorious Graham Young, Benjamin..."

April 19, 1996 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Cure
"...a curious fusing of Philadelphia and Stand By Me, The Cure marks the big-screen directorial debut of thirtysomething's Peter..."

April 21, 1995 Movie Review by Joey O'Bryan

The Quick and the Dead
"...Leonardo DiCaprio, Lance Henricksen, Woody Strode and Pat Hingle. There is, regrettably, precious little that is quick about Sam..."

Feb. 10, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Highlander III: The Final Dimension
"...returns in this third and supposedly final installment in the Highlander trilogy. This time out, the Immortal Connor MacLeod..."

Feb. 3, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Bride With White Hair II
"...that lives up to its precursor's premise (sort of). The titular bride of the first film, Lian (Lin) has..."

Jan. 27, 1995 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Far From Home: The Adventures of Yellow Dog
"...Davison, Jesse Bradford, Tom Bower, Joel Palmer and Dakotah. The film opens with three young boys dressed as Indians..."

Jan. 13, 1995 Movie Review by Louis Black

… And God Spoke (the making of …)
"...flicks who try to do a class adaptation of the Bible. Borman's behind-the-scenes spoof might be said to show..."

Nov. 4, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Heroic Trio II: The Executioners
"...box-office smash. In a world ravaged by nuclear holocaust, the only untainted water available comes from the Clean Water..."

Aug. 26, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

The Slingshot
"...share of troubles growing up in 1920s Stockholm. His father's a socialist and his mother's a Jew and young..."

Aug. 19, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Lion King
"...cartoon successes, but despite its seeming more obviously cobbled together than the Mouse Factory's other films, The Lion King..."

June 24, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Half Japanese: The Band That Would Be King
"...Directed by: Jeff Feuerzeig. There came a point when Jeff Feuerzeig became so fed..."

May 27, 1994 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

White Fang Two: Myth of the White Wolf
"...Geoffrey Lewis. Something in us loves an animal running. There is purpose and grace, power and freedom in it,..."

April 22, 1994 Movie Review by Robert Faires

Between the Teeth
"...like David Byrne. Spare, minimalist stage effects combine with the multi-textured pop rhythms of Byrne's music to create an..."

Jan. 21, 1994 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Hairdresser's Husband
The Hairdresser's Husband is a tightly knit, though slight, tale told in the best of humor. It's the story of despair bred by utter happiness. The story of this marriage begins with the husband's childhood in which he developed an adolescent crush on the town's buxom barber and also a severe case of jock itch thanks to the red wool bathing trunks his mother made him wear. Freud would not approve.
"...Patrice Laconte. Starring: Jean Rochefort and Anna Galiena. Antoine, the hairdresser's husband, has what everyone wants: love, sex and..."

Sept. 18, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

The Station
"...Starring: Sergio Rubini, Margherita Buy and Ennio Fantastichini. In the language of movies, there's nothing so desolate as a..."

May 8, 1992 Movie Review by Kathleen Maher

Fist of the North Star
"...a John Woo film and enough exploding craniums to render David Cronenberg a lightweight, this new example of over-the-top..."

Jan. 24, 1992 Movie Review by Marc Savlov

Watch This: The Sun Sets on a Relationship in Emily No Good’s “Space”
Costumes intertwine in a golden hour dance directed by Vanessa Pla
"...Against a setting sun in an open field, the music video for Emily No Good’s new single “Space”..."

July 5, 2023 Music Post by Wayne Lim

Knock at the Cabin
M. Night Shayamalan takes on the end of the world
"...M. Night Shyamalan tells a story not his own. The last time he made an adaptation of an existing..."

Feb. 10, 2023 Movie Review by Trace Sauveur

The Final Year
Behind the scenes with the Obama foreign policy team
"...There's a key moment in Greg Barker's behind-the-scenes examination of..."

Jan. 26, 2018 Movie Review by Richard Whittaker

The Bye Bye Man
A group of teens unleash the bogeyman
"...The borderline campy The Bye Bye Man is a horror..."

Jan. 13, 2017 Movie Review by Steve Davis

The Light Between Oceans
Gorgeous period melodrama fails to connect
"...Directed by: Derek Cianfrance. Starring: Michael Fassbender, Alicia Vikander, Rachel Weisz, Brian Brown, Florence Clery, Jack..."

Sept. 2, 2016 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

The Innocents
Polish nuns raped by soldiers during WWII trigger wider moral issues
"...The wintry-hued The Innocents imagines the unimaginable: the rape and..."

Aug. 5, 2016 Movie Review by Steve Davis

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