February 10, 1989 | Cousins is a warm, wise and altogether wonderful romantic comedy, the sort of movie you should see with someone you love, and with whom you want to…
July 31, 1987 | Slick, savvy and scary, The Lost Boys is a hip horror comedy with the full-throttle excitement of a rollercoaster ride and the pop culture fluency of…
March 10, 1995 | Don’t expect any mercy from the people who made Outbreak, a smashingly first-rate thriller that will do more to rev your pulse rate than a week of…
April 14, 1995 | Very small children may be entertained, or at least temporarily distracted, by The Pebble and the Penguin, but their parents will be counting each minute that ticks…
July 15, 1988 | Wim Wenders, the German filmmaker heretofore best known for gray funks and aimless despair, makes an extraordinary leap of faith in Wings of Desire. From the exquisite…
November 23, 2005 | During last year’s holiday movie season, you could catch a fleeting glimpse of Dennis Quaid subbing for James Stewart in director John Moore’s remake of Flight of…
October 31, 2008 | Talk about being in the wrong place at the right time: Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rapper and self-described “street hustler” living in the Lower Ninth Ward…
May 9, 2008 | In Then She Found Me, her smart, subtle and seriously funny debut effort as a feature film director, Oscar-winning actress Helen Hunt offers an ensemble of…
January 3, 2008 | Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) is a retired professor and out-of-print novelist who has spent the last decade of his golden years at work on a book…
January 11, 2008 | While vividly illuminating a little-known chapter of World War II history — and revealing that, alas, the book has not yet closed on the subject —…