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IF ONLY (TWICE UPON A YESTERDAY)

By | September 1998

“If Only” is a one-dimensional film covering similar territory to Sliding Doors…

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IF ONLY (TWICE UPON A YESTERDAY)

Clumsily executed piffle. "If Only" is a one-dimensional film covering similar territory to Sliding Doors (apparently both films were shot during the same...

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THE GOVERNESS

Commercial director Sandra Goldbacher's first feature is beautifully filmed and covers interesting thematic ground. Unfortunately, it also suffers from a...

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THE COLOR OF A BRISK AND LEAPING DAY

I could be a smartass and crack that this dreamy and poetic film by Christopher Munch was neither brisk nor in color, but I won't. It wasn't exactly...

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54

Director Mark Christopher's "54" tells a shining part-fact/part-fiction tale of life in the world's most star-studded club of the 1970's. From the closing...

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A MERRY WAR

I took my girlfriend to see this film based on George Orwell's 1936 novel, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying". She thought she was watching a depression era...

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WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE?

All bad movies of 1998 step aside, we have the worst film of the year: "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"! In his follow-up to "Selena," Gregory Nava takes...

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RETURN TO PARADISE

"Return to Paradise" (based on the 1990 French film "Force Majeure") is a complex, yet thought provoking film about three college grads, Sheriff (Vince...

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SIMON BIRCH

A lot of people love the John Irving novel, "A Prayer for Owen Meany." Luckily, I haven't read it, so I can't mourn for the atrocities performed on it by...

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THE AVENGERS

Another (following "The Saint") blockbuster butchery of a brilliant 60's BBC agent series that takes science fiction too seriously and throws to the wind...

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SNAKE EYES

If stylistic auteur, De Palma seemed abnormally contained behind the camera in "Mission Impossible," here he gets to let it all hang out. Unfortunately...

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