Kicked in the Head reveals the truth about nothing
By Robert Wilonsky,
October 02, 1997
Kevin Corrigan doesn't act as much as he seems to stumble from scene to scene, like a guy who doesn't follow a script but rather his own internal... More>>
Oliver Stone's low-budget, hopped-up film noir, U-Turn, is being billed as a change of pace for the Conspiracy Dude, but actually it looks quite... More>>
Critics and audiences outside France have been going on for so long about the decline in French cinema that it's fun to see a French film, Irma... More>>
The terrific L.A. Confidential captures our worst suspicions of how the world works
By Peter Rainer,
September 25, 1997
The 1950s-era Los Angeles of L.A. Confidential is Noir Central. Its denizens are tattooed in shadow; the play of light and dark in the streets,... More>>
Howard and Emily's marriage is the talk of Greenleaf, Indiana, a small town idyllic enough to repel Norman Rockwell. The town has waited three... More>>
DreamWorks's first film is a conventional tale of glam and guns
By Peter Rainer,
September 25, 1997
The Peacemaker is the first feature from DreamWorks, the studio headed by Steven Spielberg, Jeffrey Katzenberg and David Geffen. It stars George... More>>
The Game is a puzzle picture, and beyond its premise, there isn't much you can divulge without giving the show away. I'm not one of those critics... More>>
Filmmaker and archivist Rick Prelinger protects America's forgotten "home movies"
By Rob Walker,
September 04, 1997
Somewhere in the meatpacking district in downtown Manhattan, behind a nondescript door in an unremarkable building, about 100,000 reels of film... More>>
Over the last few months, 30 years after its mixture of cheekiness and sappiness created a nationwide box-office sensation, The Graduate has been... More>>
Excess Baggage, Alicia Silverstone's first feature from her First Kiss Productions, turns out to be a rather shaggy and uninvolving jaunt. As... More>>
Matthew McConaughey and Renee Zellweger take a Chainsaw to their careers
By Robert Wilonsky,
August 28, 1997
Texas Chainsaw Massacre: The Next Generation -- a goofy remake of the 1974 scare, uh, classic -- is a film so worthless the admission ought to... More>>
Director Bill Duke's valentine to Ellsworth "Bumpy" Johnson, the king of the Harlem numbers racket back in the 1930s, is called Hoodlum. But that... More>>
G.I. Jane traps a testosterone-poisoned lunkhead in Demi Moore's body
By Peter Rainer,
August 21, 1997
In G.I. Jane, Demi Moore's Naval Intelligence officer, Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, is recruited as a test case to be the first female Navy SEAL.... More>>
When the beautiful entomologist rips open the chest cavity of a huge bloodthirsty insect in the sci-fi nightmare Mimic, it turns into Thoracic... More>>
In Box of Moonlight, John Turturro finds himself ... in a too-precious movie
By Michael Sragow,
August 21, 1997
When Time magazine columnist Walter Shapiro recently referred to himself as part of a generation that still believes "A Thousand Clowns holds all... More>>
Stallone seeks, but doesn't find, redemption in Cop Land
By Peter Rainer,
August 14, 1997
The cops in Cop Land carry on like a bunch of goombahs. On the take from the Mob, they mimic the Mob. The fuzzy line dividing cops and crooks is... More>>
Mike Leigh's new Career Girls is compact and minor. I don't mean that as a slam, exactly. After the dawdling expansiveness of last year's Secrets... More>>
First-time writer/director Neil LaBute's In the Company of Men is about Chad (Aaron Eckhart) and Howard (Matt Malloy), two thirtyish white-collar... More>>
In Picture Perfect, Jennifer Aniston tells a whopper of a lie partially to win the attentions of a guy who has heretofore ignored her, interrupts... More>>
