THE WINSLOW BOY

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THE WINSLOW BOY

I was at times underwhelmed by David Mamet's latest effort as both writer and director. Adapted from the play by Terence Rattigan, the film is a slow...

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BLACK MASK

Like Jackie Chan, Jet Li's stateside success -- in "Lethal Weapon 4" -- has spurred the dubbing and dumping of his previous Hong Kong hits. In this 1996...

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SOUTHIE

Former New Kid on the Block, Donnie Walhberg is credibly redemptive and sympathetic as Danny Quinn, a fallen son who returns home to the tough hood of...

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Q & A WITH DIRECTOR WERNER HERZOG

[ On Juliane Koepke: ] ^ "It is not only a film of her, it's a film on something deeper, and part of it is of course her relationship to nature, and how...

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XIAO WU

Robert Bresson made this same film better and far earlier with his exquisite existentialist "Pickpocket" in 1959. "Xiao Wu" essentially treads the same...

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A TRUE MOB STORY

This is an extremely conventional Hong Kong gangster film. While competently made, it adds nothing to the wide spectrum of much more creative and...

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WELCOME BACK, MR. MCDONALD

This is a delightfully funny film, and Woody Allen-esque in the tradition of "Bullets Over Broadway." When a young woman wins a radio drama scriptwriting...

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MEGACITIES

This partially staged documentary is a powerful glimpse into lives of extreme desperation lived on the fringes of four major cities; Bombay, New York,...

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ON THE ROPES

This film tells its story simply and well. Three youths from New York's Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood attempt to use boxing as a way to get out of the...

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GET REAL

This film is ostensibly about a teenage boy coming out at high-school, but is really about the tribulations of growing up. Simon Shore's film goes out of...