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…
Beetlejuice
March 30, 1988| Three years ago, director Tim Burton startled audiences with Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, a brightly-painted swirl of cartoonish lunacy. But now it’s clear that bizarre comedy was a mere…
Dave
May 7, 1993| If filmmaker Frank Capra had never existed, film critics would have had to invent him, if only to describe a particular type of savvy, satirical but basically soft-hearted…
Dick
August 4, 1999 | What was the Committee to Re-Elect the President? Why were people so concerned about an 18 ½-minute gap on a White House audiotape? How did G. Gordon…
The Phantom
June 6, 1996 | After wading through the angst of three doom-and-gloom Batman movies, wouldn't you like to see a masked superhero who enjoys his work? Who actually thinks battling bad…
I Am Vegenace: Retaliation
OK, a quick show of hands: How many of you actually knew there was a movie titled I Am Vegeance released in 2018? Wow, that many? Well, that’s probably why…
The Ice Harvest
November 23, 2005 | It’s the night before Christmas, and all through Wichita, mob-connected lawyer Charlie Arglist (John Cusack) is making all the wrong moves. He’s a bit too generous…