Email Author Matt Zoller Seitz

1995 Stories by Matt Zoller Seitz

• The Wet Look

  published August 3, 1995

  Given what we've heard about the film's chaotic production history, the opening image of Waterworld has a certain juvenile charm: the world-famous... More >>

• Unkind Cuts

  published August 3, 1995

  It's been a long time since I've despised a film character the way I despised Chad Palomino (James Le Gros), a rich, handsome, spoiled young... More >>

• Fashion Plate

  published August 3, 1995

  About 30 minutes into Clueless, a disposable new teen comedy starring MTV-spawned glamour girl Alicia Silverstone as a spoiled Beverly Hills... More >>

• A Boy and His Cetacean

  published July 27, 1995

  Discussing 1993's year in movies, veteran Hollywood scriptwriter William Goldman -- who wrote the screenplays for Butch Cassidy and the Sundance... More >>

• Train to Disaster

  published July 20, 1995

  Just when it seemed safe to go to the summer cinema, Steven Seagal is back, this time in Under Siege 2: Dark Territory, a megabudget sequel that's... More >>

• Quiet Spell

  published July 20, 1995

  The Indian in the Cupboard is an oasis of calm amid the glitzy din of summer. It rarely shouts when it can whisper. Like the fairy tales of the... More >>

• Moonstruck

  published July 6, 1995

  His ship might be damaged beyond repair, and his longtime ambition to walk on the moon might be dashed forever, but Jim Lovell (Tom Hanks),... More >>

• Lost Knight

  published July 6, 1995

  First Knight, a new effort from Ghost director Jerry Zucker, purports to tell the tale of King Arthur's ill-fated marriage to Lady Guinevere -- a... More >>

• Female Trouble

  published June 29, 1995

  The absence of good movie roles for women has been bemoaned in the press so many times over the past few years that film critics might as well... More >>

• Batman, At Last

  published June 22, 1995

  I was disappointed in the first two Batman movies. Despite moments of dark wit and visual brilliance, they didn't move me emotionally, and I... More >>

• Flings, First and Final

  published June 1, 1995

  If you need proof that what we enjoy in art has nothing to do with what we'll accept in life, then consider love stories. When you look... More >>

• Not Worth Remembering

  published May 25, 1995

  Some movies are so bad that they make you look back over your recent moviegoing life with the merciless eye of an FBI agent assembling a dossier,... More >>

• Love for Sale

  published May 25, 1995

  When 16-year-old mail-order bride Riyo (Youki Kudoh) gets off the boat that has borne her from her old home in Japan to her new one on a sugar... More >>

• Mad Mel's Epic Adventure

  published May 25, 1995

  In the 16 years since he made his screen debut, Mel Gibson has seen plenty of action. Part of what makes him so charismatic is his ability to take... More >>

• Cat Man Dues

  published May 11, 1995

  For nearly three decades, some of Hollywood's most powerful African-American players have labored unsuccessfully to bring the story of the Black... More >>

• America, America

  published May 11, 1995

  The Perez Family and My Family (Mi Familia) don't glance off of you the way most movies do. Full of hardship, deprivation, bitterness and death --... More >>

• Bad Seeds

  published May 4, 1995

  In the past two decades, filmmaker John Carpenter has directed 17 movies, and has established himself as a towering figure in modern horror -- a... More >>

• Getting Hooked, Brilliantly

  published April 27, 1995

  As Jim Carroll, the teenage prep-school junkie hero of The Basketball Diaries, Leonardo DiCaprio gives a performance so brilliant it's scary. ... More >>

• Good and Rotten

  published April 20, 1995

  One of the most welcome surprises of WorldFest is the premiere of Joe's Rotten World, a terrific comedy from Los Angeles-based writer/director... More >>

• Generations

  published April 20, 1995

  Gregory Nava's My Family (Mi Familia), a multigenerational epic about a Chicano family in east Los Angeles, is one of the most satisfying... More >>

• Not So True Confessions

  published April 13, 1995

  Your hooey detector will probably start beeping about ten minutes into British filmmaker Antonia Bird's controversial melodrama Priest when Father... More >>

• Lover Men

  published April 6, 1995

  Nick Nolte's craggily handsome face, steely eyes and whiskey-and-cigarettes voice are the epitome of ravaged old-movie grandeur. But in his heart,... More >>

• Killer Elite

  published March 30, 1995

  You know a work of art is significant when its first public exhibition degenerates into a near-riot. It happened in Kansas City almost 25... More >>

• Coal-Colored Glasses

  published March 23, 1995

  Atom Egoyan's vision of a world full of misfits, nomads and wounded souls is so peculiar -- and, frankly, so generally off-putting -- that it's... More >>

• Shotgun Marriage

  published March 23, 1995

  The new Australian feature Muriel's Wedding evokes a couple of other independently funded hits from recent years, Four Weddings and a Funeral and... More >>