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…
Bringing Out The Dead
October 22, 1999 | Frank Pierce (Nicolas Cage), the walking-wounded protagonist of Bringing Out the Dead, is a New York City paramedic who works the graveyard shift in Hell’s Kitchen.…
Sexy Beast
June 13, 2001 | During the opening minutes of the smashing new movie called Sexy Beast, we see a beefy, middle-aged bloke – quite obviously, not the title character – sunning…
Nobody’s Fool
January 13, 1995 | What is Nobody’s Fool all about? Nothing in particular and everything that matters. How is Paul Newman in the lead role? He doesn’t appear to do anything…
Men In Black
July 2, 1997 | There is a marvelous blend of kicky exuberance and deadpan drollery throughout Men in Black, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi action-adventure that leaves Batman and Robin far behind,…