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By | September 1998
One of the year’s best films by far…
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...
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...
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...
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...
Broken Vessels is a stylish expose of the paramedic sub-culture in Los Angeles. There are many companies that are more than willing to exploit ambitious...
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...
Bobbie (Vincent Kartheiser) and Rosie (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are small-time crooks with no purpose or direction. Along comes Mel (James Woods) and Sid...
