The Fast and the Furious
June 22, 2001 | When the graybeards among us bitterly grouse about Hollywood's inability to “make them like they used to,” chances are good that the complainers aren’t pining for the…
To Sleep With Anger
November 16, 1990 | During the opening seconds of To Sleep With Anger, a middle-aged, sturdily-built black man, all decked out in his Sunday best, sits on a cane chair near…
Fresh
August 31, 1994 | At the start of Fresh, the drop-dead brilliant film by first-time writer-director Boaz Yakin, the title character is introduced as he makes the early-morning rounds of…
Feed
June 25, 1993 | Comedy, Steve Martin once noted, is not pretty. The makers of Feed, the savagely clever documentary premiering this weekend at the Rice University Media Center, would likely…
Groundhog Day
February 12, 1993 | In synopsis, Groundhog Day sounds like some lesser episode of The Twilight Zone. In coming attractions trailers, it looks even less promising — more like Caddyshack 3.…
Echo Park
January 17, 1987| Right off the top of my head, I can’t think of anything very harsh to say about Echo Park, an innocuous comedy-drama about ambitious eccentrics in a…
News of the World
Echoes of gritty ‘70s revisionist westerns – think Peter Fonda’s The Hired Hand, or Robert Benton’s Bad Company, or Robert Altman’s McCabe & Mrs. Miller — reverberate throughout News of…
Fearless
October 29, 1993 | In the opening moments of Fearless, a deeply affecting and profoundly unsettling new film by Peter Weir (Witness), we are plunged into the story with a disorienting…
Love At Large
March 30, 1990| Filmmaker Alan Rudolph is a dreamy, deep-dyed romantic, as anyone who has seen Choose Me, Trouble in Mind or Made in Heaven can readily testify. His moody meditations…
Black Beauty
July 29, 1994| There have been many other film and TV versions of Black Beauty, Anna Sewell’s much-loved tale of a noble horse and the people who gallop in and out…