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By | April 1998
About the only thing suicidal in this lethargic crime drama is the convoluted script…
About the only thing suicidal in this lethargic crime drama is the convoluted script that wastes two fine performances by Christopher Walken and Denis...
When I saw this film's premise - a poet, his musician friend and a waitress who all hang out at a bar where two of them work and the rocker plays - I...
I've heard love and romance compared to many things, but barbecue's a new one on me. Yet, that's the metaphor of choice in Stacy Kirk's gritty rural Texas...
Here was a so-what film full of miserable cretins who deserved every bit of grief their actions caused them. Set for some useless reason in the...
Richard Linklatter's latest film, "The Newton Boys," a western/gangster hybrid, is an exactingly made look at one of the most successful bank robbery...
This Australian comedy tracks the fantasy and real life adventures of a young outback lad who loves American country and western music. Part western, part...
Director Phillip Messina's With Friends Like These . . . is a Hollywood comedy (in the vein of The Player ) about a group of friends (Robert Costanzo,...
"Funkytown" is a documentary filmed in the traditional shaky-handed, Hill Street Blues style about several Minneapolis bands playing in clubs and hoping...
Lesli Linka Glatter's "The Proposition" is a beautiful, technically perfect period film set during the 1930's. Kenneth Branagh plays a Catholic priest who...
I think Jackie Chan has invented the new porno. There's a bunch of bad acting and inconsequential plot linking the stuff you actually want to see, and...