Dogma
October 4, 1999 | Right at the start of Dogma, a movie that already has managed to outrage thousands of people who likely will never bother to see it, writer-director…
Dungeons & Dragons
December 8, 2000 | In the rarified genre of movies based on board games, Dungeons and Dragons distinguishes itself by being much funnier than Clue (1985), a nominal comedy. Unfortunately,…
Die Another Day
November 22, 2002 | Wonder why it's taken so long -- three years since The World is Not Enough -- for James Bond to renew his license to kill? Simple:…
Do The Right Thing
June 30, 1989 | Throbbing to the beat of a rap-music rant, percolating to the heat of long-simmering rage, Spike Lee’s Do the Right Thing is an audacious and exhilarating film,…
Double Dragon
November 4, 1994 | The year is 2007, the city is ''New Angeles,'' the earthquake-ravaged remains of Los Angeles and San Diego, and the news is mostly bad. Much of the…
Don’t Say a Word
September 28, 2001 | Alfred Hitchcock once coined the term “refrigerator logic” – or maybe “ice-box logic,” I don’t remember precisely – to describe a type of after-the-fact nit-picking common among…
Dogtown and ZBoys
April 26, 2002 | Since I've never been a skateboarder -- and I've always been grateful that my teen-age son isn't one, either -- I foolishly assumed that Dogtown and…
The Carnivores
Dim echoes of David Lynch and early Roman Polanski abound throughout “The Carnivores,” a fitfully fascinating mix of teasing narrative opacity and stylized psycho-thriller atmospherics. The shot-in-Austin indie feature, originally…
My Darling Vivian
A fascinating and affecting corrective counterpoint to the Johnny Cash myths, “My Darling Vivian” offers a sympathetic portrait of the late country great’s first wife, Vivian Liberto, that stands in stark…
The Etruscan Smile
Brian Cox rages robustly and arrestingly against the dying of the light in “The Etruscan Smile,” an unabashedly formulaic yet undeniably affecting coming-to-terms drama that may cause as much discomfort…