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By | May 1999
This film tells its story simply and well…
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...
This is a beautifully told tale about a man's search to learn about the life of the father he never knew. James Caan gives a solid performance as an...
This is an extremely conventional Hong Kong gangster film. While competently made, it adds nothing to the wide spectrum of much more creative and...
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...
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...
Another slow-moving, barely edited film by Arturo Ripstein, this film creeps along at a snail's pace and expects us to remain interested. Ripstein should...
Robert Bresson made this same film better and far earlier with his exquisite existentialist "Pickpocket" in 1959. "Xiao Wu" essentially treads the same...
The latest work from influential director Werner Herzog, this documentary retraces astonishing events that took place 25 years ago, when a plane crash in...
Like many people from my generation, "Star Wars" is not just a favorite film, but an almost spiritual experience from childhood. Like I need to say...
Well, my review of the Star Wars: Special Edition caused quite the stir a few weeks ago when I gave it a fairly negative review. Let me recap for a moment,...
