February 6, 1987 | The lines between hunter and hunted get blurred once again in Black Widow, an ingeniously plotted and stylishly directed psychological thriller that brings out the very best…
June 30, 1986 | Ruthless People is relentlessly funny. A cheery celebration of vulgarity and avarice, it is a rude, crude comedy of bad manners that never lets good taste…
March 5, 1993 | As director, star and co-screenwriter of Mac, the immensely satisfying drama that won the Camera d’Or prize at last year’s Cannes Film Festival, John Turturro scores,…
March 31, 1985 | With Fletch, an immensely enjoyable comedy-thriller based on Gregory McDonald’s crackerjack novel, Chevy Chase incontestably establishes his star power in the best role of his career:…
August 31, 1990 | It takes a few minutes for the audience to make out just what The Unbelievable Truth is all about. At first, we see a stoic young man,…
November 22, 1991 | Joe Roberts (David Morse) is the good brother. Without him saying a word about it, you know — you just know — he didn’t ask for the role,…
October 11, 1987 | Dr. Margaret Ford is a renowned psychiatrist, author of the best-selling Driven: Compulsion and Obsession in Everyday Life. She knows whereof she writes: A single-minded, chain-smoking workaholic,…
October 14, 1994 | Chances are very good you will like I Like It Like That, a fresh and vivacious comedy-drama that signals the arrival of an extremely promising filmmaker.…
April 20, 1990 | Miami Blues is a bracingly potent brew of ferociously funny black comedy and gritty-as-gravel cop-and-killer thriller. Don’t be misled by the whimsical tone of the advertising campaign,…
September 26, 1986 | For moviegoers who associate Akira Kurosawa only with the teeming majesty of Ran and Kagemusha, or the kinetic adventure of The Hidden Fortress and Seven Samurai,…