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Monthly Archives: September 1998
By | September 1998
It seems too eager to please…
Bruce McCulloch's directorial debut is a well-meaning piece of romantic fluff, but where his segments in The Kids in the Hall were refreshingly absurd and...
Wes Anderson's second film is an oddly original coming-of-age story about Max (Jason Schwartzman), an eccentric teenager who ambitiously participates in...
After the widely praised Big Night (1996), Stanley Tucci is back with an equally impressive effort called The Impostors, a charming film that harkens back...
This is the kind of film that Academy Award members just love: a powerful, heartfelt story about the relationship between two kids. Max (Elden Henson) is a...
Some of the best comedies have been coming out of Japan. Films like Tampopo (1986) and Shall We Dance? (1996) have taken the best elements of old Hollywood...
If Bette Gordon's dreamy road movie is intended to be a poignant study of the intense relationship between a mother and her son then it was lost on me....
Tony Cinciripini's debut film begins as a formulaic Boyz N The Hood (1991) drama/heist-gone-wrong story, but gradually develops into a compassionate...
After seeing a 96 minute version of his latest film in 1958, an understandably outraged Orson Welles rushed home and cranked out a 58-page memo to...
Actor Saul Rubinek's impressive directorial debut is an engaging black comedy about two hitmen (Joe Mantegna and Sam Rockwell) who moonlight as used car...
Anna Quindlen's novel about a family affected by dysfunction and coping with cancer looks great in the hands of director Carl Franklin ("One False Move"),...
