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…
Candyman
October 16, 1992 | Candyman is unique among recent mad-slasher monster melodramas, in that it has a brain in its head as well as blood on its hands. There’s enough…
Lily Topples the World
August 25, 2021 | If we could all agree on a working definition of the term “nice” — one that implies bemused appreciation more than condescending disparagement — it could…
Shallow Grave
February 24, 1995 | You may hate yourself the morning after you see it — in fact, you may not like yourself too much even while you’re watching it —…
Joe Versus The Volcano
March 9, 1990 | If, as the poet noted, most men lead lives of quiet desperation, then Joe Banks (Tom Hanks) truly is an exceptional fellow: His desperately unhappy life…