Ruby
March 27, 1992 | In sharp, striking contrast to the flash and filigree of Oliver Stone's stylistically brilliant JFK, John Mackenzie's Ruby, the latest bit of Warren Commission-bashing, has the low-rent look and blunt-edged…
Flesh and Bone
November 5, 1993 | Slowly, mesmerizingly, Flesh and Bone unfolds as a dark and brooding drama that rewards your patience with the cumulative impact of a primal myth. A tale…
Tremors
January 19, 1990 | Cross a 1950s-style monster rally with a redneck comedy of bad manners, then add a generous dose of campy cleverness, and you get Tremors, the first…
The Sapphires
April 6, 2013 | It’s got a great beat, and you can dance to it, so I’ll give The Sapphires four out of four stars. This sassy and spirited Australian import —…
Skin Deep
March 6, 1989 | Skin Deep is Blake Edwards’ new and greatly improved version of The Man Who Loved Women, his less-than-successful 1983 remake of Francois Truffaut’s comedy of romantic…
Notting Hill
May 28, 1999 | If you’re in the market for a love story with lots of laughs, consider the unlikely pairing of a timid bookstore owner and the world’s most…
Serendipity
October 5, 2001 | Like so many other things in life, film criticism isn’t fair. So you shouldn’t be surprised if some of our snippier reviewers toss barbed brickbats at…
The Glass House
September 14, 2001 | There’s something weirdly fascinating about a thriller as potently trashy as The Glass House, something almost indecently attention-grabbing about the lurid overstatement of its B-movie melodramatics.…
The Grey Zone
November 15, 2002 | On a drearily overcast Sunday afternoon 12 years ago, I visited Auschwitz. And for reasons I didn't entirely understand at first, I felt compelled to touch everything…
Happy, Texas
October 1, 1999 | Happy, Texas is a comedy about two escaped convicts who pretend to be gay — and romantically involved — while posing as beauty-pageant producers for the…