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The Big Lebowski (1998) Michael Sragow Bridges gives the Dude a textured fuzziness that wins the film its biggest laughs and imparts a second-to-second emotional authenticity to its jumbled, showoffy action. He's precisely what those aesthetic wiseacres the Coen brothers need.
Posted Jan 20, 2023  Edit critic review
L.A. Confidential (1997) Peter Rainer Hanson wants to give us a richer sense of character than the standard noirs, and, by the end, his cops have earned their chops.
Posted Oct 19, 2021  Edit critic review
5/5
The Decalogue (1989) Luke Y. Thompson Who knows how often you'll actually want to watch the whole thing, but it's masterful film-making nonetheless.
Posted May 01, 2021  Edit critic review
Licensed to Kill (1997) Andy Klein The chill and fear it generates are more genuine than the 1989 James Bond film its name evokes.
Posted Jun 09, 2020  Edit critic review
The Story of Us (1999) M.V. Moorhead According to The Story of Us, men and women have different responses to life, love and sex, and this can sometimes result in conflicts and tension in a marriage. And you thought American Beauty was daring.
Posted Apr 07, 2020  Edit critic review
Practical Magic (1998) Bill Gallo As witch movies go -- even lighthearted, supposedly comic witch movies -- Practical Magic is conspicuously lacking in supernatural phenomena.
Posted Mar 30, 2019  Edit critic review
200 Cigarettes (1999) M.V. Moorhead [Director Risa Bramon Garcia] gets sharp, funny work from her hot young cast.
Posted Mar 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Analyze This (1999) Bill Gallo Suffice to say that the real pleasures of Analyze This lie in the easy confidence with which De Niro savages himself.
Posted Mar 21, 2019  Edit critic review
8MM (1999) Andy Klein By the end, the overwrought dialogue provokes unintended laughs, and even Cage -- aided by memorable work from Phoenix, Peter Stormare and James Gandolfini -- can't save it.
Posted Mar 21, 2019  Edit critic review
Mars Attacks! (1996) Peter Rainer It's a destructo orgy without any phony-baloney sanctimony about the fellowship of man -- or spaceman.
Posted Dec 07, 2018  Edit critic review
Studio 54: The Documentary (2018) Alan Scherstuhl This all makes for a shallow but vivid history.
Posted Oct 04, 2018  Edit critic review
Deep Impact (1998) Peter Rainer The film is set up to be a ringing endorsement of the human species under pressure, but what comes across is something far less ennobling.
Posted Jun 25, 2018  Edit critic review
Bilal: A New Breed of Hero (2015) Craig D. Lindsey Bilal achieves a vibrantly noble tone even when it stumbles plot-wise.
Posted Feb 02, 2018  Edit critic review
Ivans Xtc (2002) David Ehrenstein Shot on High Definition video, this exceptionally well-made but exceedingly bleak peek at tinseltown would be unbearable were it not for the sympathetic performance of Danny Huston...
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Second Skin (1999) David Ehrenstein Though very well-acted, it's not the film it could have been.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Km. 0 (2000) David Ehrenstein It's this same disinclination to judge that allows Km. 0 to move from raucous comedy to bittersweet romance...
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Krampack (2000) David Ehrenstein ... the film goes a long way toward dispelling myths of innocence and purity, while showing that teen-agers can sometimes be wise enough to figure out some of life's most important lessons for themselves.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Light It Up (1999) David Ehrenstein ... it's this sense of the "real" that not only keeps Light It Up lively but that marks it -- for all its visual flair -- as happily out of step with a zeitgeist enamored of naught but money and notoriety as the wildly overhyped millennium turns.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) David Ehrenstein The timing couldn't be better for How Stella Got Her Groove Back.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Head On (1998) David Ehrenstein ... the movie demonstrates just how hard coming out can be, especially for those more at war with themselves than with the culture around them.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Urbania (2000) David Ehrenstein Shear never shirks from the horrors of gay city life--but he doesn't ignore the tenderness either.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Edge of Seventeen (1998) David Ehrenstein ... it's a calm, clear-eyed portrait of a particular kid trying to figure out -- like teenagers of all kinds the world over -- who he is and where he fits in.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Better Than Chocolate (1999) David Ehrenstein ... for those looking for more, they'll have to tell the filmmaking chefs to put something other than Chocolate on the menu.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Gods and Monsters (1998) David Ehrenstein In short, it's a moment, and a film, about compassion.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
Party Monster (2003) David Ehrenstein ... shows that there's a lot more to this sordid story than first meets the jaundiced eye.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
But I'm a Cheerleader (1999) David Ehrenstein Director Jamie Babbit and screenwriter Brian Wayne Peterson haven't attacked their target as effectively as they might, but as mild as it may be, Cheerleader underscores the fact that gender roles are ideological in nature.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
The Broken Hearts Club (2000) David Ehrenstein In short, audiences may be buying a ticket to see Dean Cain kiss another guy, but there's a lot more to The Broken Hearts Club than that lovely sight.
Posted Oct 03, 2017  Edit critic review
The Mod Squad (1999) M.V. Moorhead It's a terrible movie, really, but I'm not hard-hearted enough to condemn it, because it brings back some of the scrappy feel of '70s TV action series.
Posted Mar 21, 2017  Edit critic review
Antonia's Line (1995) Todd Anthony Antonia's Line perfectly fits the Oscar mold: set in the past, studiously PC, sentimental, multigenerational, and loaded with hollow ruminations on the nature of life, death, and the passage of time.
Posted Oct 04, 2016  Edit critic review
Jerry Maguire (1996) Michael Sragow Some amusing stuff about sports agentry drowns in the emotional shallows of Jerry Maguire.
Posted Aug 24, 2016  Edit critic review
The World Is Not Enough (1999) Andy Klein Whatever its flaws -- and it has some lulus -- it's a textbook model for how to structure action of this kind. The writers and directors of every Bond film should be forced to watch it before their first story conference.
Posted Nov 02, 2015  Edit critic review
Tomorrow Never Dies (1997) Andy Klein While it seems a good idea to have fresh directors on each new film, veteran Roger Spottiswoode doesn't seem to bring much to the party.
Posted Nov 01, 2015  Edit critic review
GoldenEye (1995) Todd Anthony Basically, James, GoldenEye wasn't bad. A bit long and not the sexiest or most thrilling Bond movie. But a Bond movie nonetheless, and far from an embarrassment like Moonraker.
Posted Oct 28, 2015  Edit critic review
Blade (1998) Andy Klein Sad then to say that Blade is, at best, second-rate pulp, hampered by excessive length, a thematically meandering screenplay, and a general lack of excitement.
Posted Jul 15, 2015  Edit critic review
Alien (1979) Gregory Weinkauf Bloody brilliant.
Posted Jun 30, 2015  Edit critic review
Shakespeare in Love (1998) M.V. Moorhead [A] cheeky, delightfully playful romantic comedy.
Posted Mar 17, 2015  Edit critic review
Crash (2004) Robert Wilonsky What makes Crash so gripping -- so terrifying in spots, so moving in others, and even a little funny at times -- is how nothing happens as we think it will.
Posted Feb 23, 2015  Edit critic review
American Beauty (1999) Bill Gallo This seriocomic autopsy of middle-class virtue has the capacity to startle and surprise, and a gift for finding grim humor at the heart of tragedy.
Posted Feb 22, 2015  Edit critic review
The English Patient (1996) Michael Sragow Anthony Minghella believes in ghosts -- and, at his best, makes believers out of viewers, too.
Posted Feb 22, 2015  Edit critic review
Merry Christmas (2005) Melissa Levine Except for a few missteps, the movie is so beautifully and sensitively rendered in its particulars, in its characterizations of soldiers and officers, and in its dramatization of a nearly miraculous event, that the result is an affecting piece of cinema.
Posted Dec 14, 2014  Edit critic review
Eyes Wide Shut (1999) Hal Hinson It is, as his films usually are, dense, complex, and challenging. It is also, sad to say, ponderous, often inscrutable, and ultimately not much fun.
Posted Dec 13, 2014  Edit critic review
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002) Gregory Weinkauf Despite its sophomoric awkwardness, the Chamber of Secrets is a welcome delivery of childlike wonder for a planet of ever- increasing ugliness.
Posted Dec 06, 2014  Edit critic review
Beauty and the Beast (1946) Jean Oppenheimer So enchanting it takes your breath away, Jean Cocteau's 1946 live-action version of the famous fairy tale remains one of the most magical films ever made.
Posted Dec 05, 2014  Edit critic review
Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975) Gregory Weinkauf Watching it, it's hard to believe that these guys were actually meandering across heaths and trudging across rope bridges, with electricians and caterers not far away. It seems more as if this souvenir of the Absurd Ages has... existed for a millennium.
Posted Nov 24, 2014  Edit critic review
The Sixth Sense (1999) Bill Gallo Beyond these startling apparitions, there's a surplus of mumbo-jumbo in here -- and some ludicrously false notes.
Posted Oct 07, 2014  Edit critic review
The Blair Witch Project (1999) M.V. Moorhead Easily the scariest horror picture of the '90s, a movie that can take a place among the most potent and inexorable of modern shockers, like Night of the Living Dead or The Texas Chain Saw Massacre.
Posted Sep 29, 2014  Edit critic review
Lost in Space (1998) M.V. Moorhead The actors are good sports. The standout, inevitably, is Gary Oldman.
Posted Sep 17, 2014  Edit critic review
Chicken Run (2000) Gregory Weinkauf The first feature film from England's Aardman Animation, and the first truly terrific film to be released by DreamWorks.
Posted Aug 24, 2014  Edit critic review
Saving Private Ryan (1998) Peter Rainer Spielberg puts us through the hair-trigger terrors of combat in a way no other filmmaker has ever dared, and yet there's a gentleness to his enterprise. He's interested in the humaneness that comes through the horror.
Posted Aug 19, 2014  Edit critic review
The Iron Giant (1999) M.V. Moorhead The film isn't as blisteringly satirical as The Simpsons; it's warmer. And while its nostalgia isn't simplistic, it is affectionate.
Posted Aug 12, 2014  Edit critic review
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