Email Author Matt Zoller Seitz

1995 Stories by Matt Zoller Seitz

• Distant Thunder

  published March 16, 1995

  Before the Rain, a three-part anthology of stories from the war-torn Balkan nation of Macedonia, is as powerful and passionate an examination of... More >>

• To Hell and Back

  published March 9, 1995

  There's a good reason why the new thriller Hideaway is proudly designated as "A Film by Brett Leonard," a name few casual moviegoers would... More >>

• The Evil and the Stupid

  published March 2, 1995

  It's pointless to respectfully review a film as ineptly written, indifferently directed and slothfully performed as Just Cause, the new legal... More >>

• Dead Bang

  published February 16, 1995

  About ten minutes into Sam Raimi's Western The Quick and the Dead, his nomadic, gunslinging heroine, Ellen (Sharon Stone), slouches down in a... More >>

• Barely There

  published February 16, 1995

  Set in 1817 during the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars, Colonel Chabert is about a legendary soldier, presumed dead, who returns home to discover... More >>

• Seaside Bliss

  published February 9, 1995

  First-time feature filmmaker David Frankel's Miami Rhapsody is so fleet-footed, cheerful and entertaining that it's tempting to dismiss it as just... More >>

• Disorder in the Court

  published February 2, 1995

  Many people in the court of King George III, the protagonist of a fascinating new British comedy by director Nicholas Hytner, suspected something... More >>

• Slack time

  published January 26, 1995

  Most movie fans have a filmmaker they latch onto, take to heart and enthusiastically root for. Their triumphs make you euphoric and their failures... More >>

• Throne of Blood

  published January 26, 1995

  Raucous, bawdy, sexy and violent, Queen Margot is history as feverishly overwrought soap opera -- history painted in tears, sweat, blood and... More >>

• Mother Lode

  published January 19, 1995

  It's not at all surprising that now Susan Sarandon has finally edged away from earthy sexpot roles and begun embracing characters with maternal... More >>

• B.S. 101

  published January 12, 1995

  Writer-director John Singleton's Boyz N the Hood was a triumph of intimate storytelling -- an African-American melodrama set in a bullet-riddled... More >>

• Sounding the Soul

  published January 5, 1995

  In the middle of the public premiere of Ludwig van Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, the elderly, decrepit, bitter composer leaves his seat in the... More >>