Family matters
"Where the Heart Is":John Boorman's enchanted comedy "Where the Heart Is" sings the
praises of hearth and home
(12/14/98)
Book worm
"Matilda": A smart, funny fantasy for bookworms of all ages
(11/30/98)
Character
from sweaty Nixon to gentleman gambler, Philip Baker Hall is a name
you don't recognize, and an actor you won't forget
(11/16/98)
Camp classic By Charles Taylor
"To Be or Not to Be": Vain Polish actors vs. buffoonish Nazi killers in a classic, controversial comedy
(11/02/98)
Lipstick bliss
Bionic Queen Mothers and walking fish fill the strange, delightful
world of British comedian Eddie Izzard
(10/19/98)
"Under the Cherry Moon"
Prince's unfairly maligned second film mixes swank screwball comedy with uptown sass
(09/29/98)
Citizen Tania
"Patty Hearst" tells the story America didn't want to hear
(09/22/98)
"Dodes'ka-den"
Kurosawa in the shadows, a little-known gem
(09/15/98)
Latin American Gothic
Roman Polanski's overwrought "Death and the
Maiden"
(09/08/98)
Idyll worship
"Haut/bas/fragile": The ecstasy of everyday Parisian life
(09/01/98)
James Bond gets a life
007 showed his most human face in the oddball entry "On Her Majesty's Secret Service"
(08/25/98)
Invitation to a lynching
The trial that ended capital punishment in England
(08/18/98)
Tiara trials
"Roman Holiday" and "Princess Caraboo"
(08/04/98)
Love hurts
The exquisite agony of Bertrand Blier's romantic dramas
(07/28/98)
Silvery "Moon"
"The Moon's Our Home": Silvery art deco romantic comedy
(07/21/98)
Melodrama queen
Matador: Almodóvar's paean to sex, violence, passion and death
(07/14/98)
Video vacation
Summery, sensuous fun: "High Season" and "Rough Magic"
(07/07/98)
"The Border"
Jack Nicholson is at his best playing a burned-out border patrol officer in a small Texas town
(06/30/98)
L.A. transcendental
the dark side of Hollywood's New Age
(06/23/98)
Women on the verge
In a burst of fresh air for French film, "Mina Tannenbaum" is a movie about the messy,
painful side of female friendships
(06/16/98)
Kitsch is bustin' out all over
With Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis
(06/09/98)
Rock 'n' roll heaven
Walter Hill's trashy extravaganza "Streets of Fire" packs a bittersweet, youthful wallop
(06/02/98)
Depp impact
A former teen idol has become Hollywood's most versatile and moving actor
(05/26/98)
Isn't it romantic?
Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn bring a dash of style to Stanley Donen's caper in Paris
(05/19/98)
Base man
Tommy Lee Jones towers as the nasty, racist, hateful Ty Cobb
(05/12/98)
Rio Bravo
Why "Rio Bravo" is the Great American Movie
(05/05/98)
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