"The Talented Mr. Ripley" Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow and Jude Law star in a deluxe version of Patricia Highsmith's creepy classic.
(12/24/99)

"Any Given Sunday" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Al Pacino and Cameron Diaz make all the right moves, but Oliver Stone's playbook is running out of juice.
(12/23/99)

"Man on the Moon" By Stephanie Zacharek
Jim Carrey has the eyes down cold, but the rest of the Andy Kaufman story melts after a series of smeared details.
(12/22/99)

"Angela's Ashes" By Stephanie Zacharek
The epic, weighty adaptation remains faithful to the letter, but what happened to Frank McCourt's poetry?
(12/21/99)

"Girl, Interrupted" By Stephanie Zacharek
Not even foxy sociopath Angelina Jolie can save this nut house drama.
(12/20/99)

"Magnolia" By Charles Taylor
Even with a stellar cast, director Paul Thomas Anderson's "Boogie Nights" follow-up flounders without a punchline.
(12/17/99)

"Stuart Little" By Stephanie Zacharek
The beloved book about a mouse with human parents becomes a small wonder of a family movie.
(12/17/99)

"The Green Mile" By Andrew O'Hehir
Tom Hanks and a sparkling cast squeeze Stephen King's story for surprisingly effective Hollywood melodrama.
(12/10/99)

"Cradle Will Rock" By Charles Taylor
Tim Robbins makes politics for art's sake.
(12/10/99)

"The End of the Affair" By Michael Sragow
Julianne Moore triumphs in Neil Jordan's latest crying game.
(12/03/99)

"Sweet and Lowdown" By Stephanie Zacharek
Rising star Samantha Morton shines in this charming, finely crafted film from Woody Allen.
(12/03/99)

"Holy Smoke" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Kate Winslet smolders, but the rest of the cast evaporates in Jane Campion's tale of sex and spirituality.
(12/03/99)

"Toy Story 2" By Janelle Brown
Buzz and Woody get warm and fuzzy in Pixar's terrific sequel.
(11/24/99)

"Tumbleweeds" By Stephanie Zacharek
Mom just wants to have fun, daughter sulks. Haven't we seen this movie before?
(11/24/99)

"Ride With the Devil" By Andrew O'Hehir
Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
(11/24/99)

"Flawless" By Charles Taylor
"As Good as It Gets" goes downtown in a lame stab at indie credibility from hack director Joel Schumacher.
(11/24/99)

"End of Days" By Andrew O'Hehir
Arnie's back, with a Jesus Christ pose.
(11/24/99)

"The World Is Not Enough" By Charles Taylor
God save James Bond.
(11/19/99)

"All About My Mother" By Stephanie Zacharek
Passionate and florid, Almodóvar's valentine to motherhood breathes with vibrant, chaotic Barcelona life.
(11/19/99)

"Sleepy Hollow" By Stephanie Zacharek
This Ichabod is a tortured, if not terribly bright, goth dreamboat.
(11/19/99)

"Felicia's Journey" By Andrew O'Hehir
Atom Egoyan's follow-up to "The Sweet Hereafter" is a dank and claustrophobic thriller.
(11/19/99)

"Dogma" By Charles Taylor
Kevin Smith's comic book vision of church doctrine is a celebratory leap of faith.
(11/12/99)

"The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc" By Charles Taylor
For the flashy French director Luc Besson, Joan of Arc's story is just another excuse to play with a whole new set of toys.
(11/12/99)

"Anywhere But Here" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Mom looks like a cheap hooker, anguished daughter broods. Must be a chick flick.
(11/12/99)

"House on Haunted Hill" By Sarah Beach
Where evil has a modem and looks like black calamari.
(11/11/99)

"American Movie" By Andrew O'Hehir
I'm a loser baby, so why don't you film me?
(11/08/99)

"The Insider" By Andrew O'Hehir
An actionless thriller about a solved mystery somehow emerges as one of the best films of the year.
(11/05/99)

"The Bachelor" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Chris O'Donnell and Renée Zellweger face off in a tale that sets love against lucre.
(11/05/99)

"Portraits Chinois" By Charles Taylor
Helena Bonham Carter dazzles in the lilting French relationship comedy "Portraits Chinois (Shadow Play)."
(11/05/99)

"The Bone Collector" By Stephanie Zacharek
With a knick-knack, paddy-wack, Phillip Noyce makes this "Bone" a dog.
(11/05/99)

"Legend of 1900" By Jeff Stark
Giuseppe Tornatore's treacly tale of a ship-bound piano virtuoso drowns under its own forced weight.
(11/02/99)

"Being John Malkovich" By Andrew O'Hehir
Director Spike Jonze puts his brilliantly offbeat twist on the "15 minutes of fame" theory.
(10/29/99)

"Music of the Heart" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Wes Craven genre-hops, stumbles and makes a sappy melodrama.
(10/29/99)

"Dreaming of Joseph Lees" By Charles Taylor
Samantha Morton, the best actress to emerge in the last decade, finds a film deserving of her talents.
(10/29/99)

"Princess Mononoke" By Andrew O'Hehir
After the success of Disney's "Mulan," Miramax does its parent company one better.
(10/27/99)

"Body Shots" By Charles Taylor
The grimmest take on the singles scene since "Looking for Mr. Goodbar."
(10/26/99)

"Bringing Out the Dead" By Stephanie Zacharek
Scorsese's manic, well-acted paramedic pic needs a fast ride back to the E.R.
(10/22/99)

"Crazy in Alabama" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Antonio Banderas directs his wife, Melanie Griffith, in this little morsel of easily digestible nostalgia.
(10/22/99)

"Show Me Love" By Charles Taylor
In Sweden, this little film about lesbian teenagers was as big as "Titanic."
(10/19/99)

"The Straight Story" By Charles Taylor
Forget the G rating -- this road movie is as weird as David Lynch gets.
(10/15/99)

"The Story of Us" By Stephanie Zacharek
This Bruce Willis-Michelle Pfeiffer breakup story doesn't have one.
(10/15/99)

"Julien Donkey-Boy" By Ana Marie Cox
Critical vertigo, a homely Chloë Sevigny and one jabbering schizophrenic -- this all means something to director Harmony Korine.
(10/15/99)

"Fight Club" By Andrew O'Hehir
The late-'90s crisis of masculinity has arrived in pop culture with a vengeance.
(10/15/99)

"Boys Don't Cry" By Stephanie Zacharek
The fictionalized account of the Brandon Teena story is sensationalistic storytelling at its best.
(10/11/99)

"Random Hearts" By Stephanie Zacharek
Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas get caught somewhere between their cheatin' dead spouses and a banal thriller.
(10/08/99)

"Superstar" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A clumsy nerd enters the pantheon of "Saturday Night Live" characters made into lame movies.
(10/08/99)

"The Limey" By Charles Taylor
Director Steven Soderbergh's stylish art noir runs between cheap L.A. motels and hip icons of '60s cool.
(10/07/99)

"Three Kings" By Andrew O'Hehir
The stylish, almost hallucinatory war movie promotes director David O. Russell from indie grunt to Hollywood sharpshooter.
(10/01/99)

"Happy, Texas" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A cons-on-the-run caper gets its charm from witty, endearing performances and uncynical affection for its characters.
(10/01/99)

"Mystery, Alaska" By Chris Colin
This small film about a small town and its small hockey team tells nothing more than a little Cinderella story.
(10/01/99)

"Guinevere" By Charles Taylor
Audrey Wells' timid examination of the attraction between older men and younger women yields few surprises.
(09/29/99)

"Mumford" By Laura Miller
The movies' first sane therapist talks a big game in Lawrence Kasdan's winning comedy.
(09/24/99)

"Double Jeopardy" By Andrew O'Hehir
This action thriller bets it all -- and loses.
(09/24/99)

"Black Cat, White Cat" By Andrew O'Hehir
A Felliniesque farce boasts the many talents of Emir Kusturica, a director still making ambitious, individualistic movies like they matter.
(09/23/99)

"On the ropes" By Charles Taylor
At Brooklyn's Bed-Stuy Boxing Center, athletes fight for much more than Golden Gloves titles.
(09/21/99)

"Romance" By Ray Sawhill
Director Catherine Breillat and star Caroline Ducey follow the urge wherever it leads.
(09/17/99)

"For Love of the Game" By Andrew O'Hehir
If you're not as old as Kevin Costner's aging character at the beginning of this dreary baseball fable, you will be by the end.
(09/17/99)

"Sugar Town" By Daniel Mangin
John Taylor, Michael Des Barres and Martin Kemp play -- what else? -- faded '80s rock titans in this slight L.A. music-biz satire.
(09/17/99)

"Stop Making Sense" By Stephanie Zacharek
Fifteen years later, the delightful Talking Heads concert pic is still the kind of miracle movie that comes about once in a lifetime.
(09/16/99)

"American Beauty" By Andrew O'Hehir
Kevin Spacey keeps a biting suburban satire from eating itself alive.
(09/15/99)

"The Minus Man" By Jeff Stark
Hampton Francher's directorial debut is a thrill-less psychological thriller.
(09/15/99)

"Stigmata" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A damp, shallow thriller gives that old-time religion the MTV treatment.
(09/10/99)

"West Beirut" By Andrew O'Hehir
Tarantino cameraman Ziad Doueiri's excellent directorial debut tracks teenagers coming of age in a sophisticated city devastated by war.
(09/09/99)

"Chill Factor" By Stephanie Zacharek
Chemo-terrorists! Car crashes! Ice cream men! But not even Cuba Gooding Jr. can thaw out this late-summer dud.
(09/03/99)

Outside Providence By Stephanie Zacharek
The Farrelly brothers unself-consciously put a class-conscious spin on this wonderfully off-beat coming-of-age story.
(09/01/99)

"The Astronaut's Wife" By Charles Taylor
When you're dealing with Johnny Depp's demon spawn, who needs special effects to find childbirth scary?
(08/30/99)

The Muse By Stephanie Zacharek
Albert Brooks proves all too effective at playing a screenwriter who's lost the golden touch.
(08/27/99)

"Dudley Do-Right" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Brendan Fraser does the sweet-but-stupid big lug shtick again -- and again, and again ...
(08/27/99)

"Teaching Mrs. Tingle" By Andrew O'Hehir
Kevin Williamson wrote "Scream," "Dawson's Creek" and "I Know What You Did Last Summer," but his first feature as a director should have stayed in his desk.
(08/20/99)

"Mickey Blue Eyes" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hugh Grant's bumbling allure wears thin in a tired comedy of mob rule.
(08/20/99)

"Head On" By Daniel Mangin
Using rough sex and rougher drugs to escape the marriage-mortgage trap.
(08/20/99)

"Illuminata" By Andrew O'Hehir
In John Turturro's ambitious and arresting American tragicomedy, the actor-director invents himself an artistic tradition.
(08/17/99)

"Brokedown Palace" By Stephanie Zacharek
Claire Danes stars in her first -- and hopefully last -- women's prison flick.
(08/13/99)

"Detroit Rock City" By Stephanie Zacharek
Shout it out loud: You'll be in sweet pain after a retro glimpse at four kids smoking through the '70s heyday of Kiss.
(08/13/99)

"Bowfinger" By Andrew O'Hehir
Martin and Murphy team up for a good-natured sendup of the mindless summer blockbuster -- and just barely avoid making one themselves.
(08/12/99)

"Marcello Mastroianni: I Remember" By Charles Taylor
A warm documentary honors the Latin lover who was more than a pair of dark liquid eyes.
(08/12/99)

"The Thomas Crown Affair" By Charles Taylor
Glamorous settings, glamorous clothes, glamorous sex: This remake is a deluxe vacation for adults, frills included.
(08/11/99)

"Mystery Men" By Stephanie Zacharek
This droopy action comedy saps Hollywood's best comic actors of their superpowers.
(08/06/99)

"The Sixth Sense" By Charles Taylor
A clumsy supernatural thriller searches -- and searches and searches -- for the soul of a little boy, but finds only the edge of exploitation.
(08/06/99)

"The Iron Giant" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
The metal-machine sci-fi cartoon delivers robot action, retro nostalgia and stony metaphysics.
(08/06/99)

"Dick" By Stephanie Zacharek
A flinty little comedy gives the Nixon years another turn.
(08/04/99)

"Runaway Bride" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Richard Gere and Julia Roberts pair-up for a would-be "Pretty Woman" part two, but the thrill is long gone.
(07/30/99)

"Drop Dead Gorgeous" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
A mockumentary about a Midwestern teen beauty pageant turns out to be the guiltiest of this summer's guilty pleasures.
(07/23/99)

"The Haunting" By Stephanie Zacharek
Catherine Zeta-Jones playing a lesbian in a fur-trimmed vest? That's not scary -- that's hilarious.
(07/22/99)

"Eyes Wide Shut" By Charles Taylor
With its pro-monogamy moralizing, Kubrick's supposedly steamy last film is ultimately anti-erotic -- nothing more than an art-house version of an army training film.
(07/16/99)

"Lake Placid" By Andrew O'Hehir
David E. Kelley's first major feature hits some bumps but serves up one hell of a croc.
(07/16/99)

The Blair Witch Project By Mary Elizabeth Williams
We have nothing to fear but fear itself -- and fear, it turns out, is scarier than hell.
(07/13/99)

"Genghis Blues" By Daniel Mangin
Blues musician Paul Pena heads to Central Asia to unlock the secrets of the ancient art of throat-singing.
(07/09/99)

"American Pie" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
He's gotta have it in this male-masturbation comedy, but the still unreleased "Coming Soon" shows that girls need their fun, too.
(07/09/99)

"Arlington Road" By Andrew O'Hehir
Hitchcock worship smothers the plot twists and suburban paranoia of a summer thriller.
(07/09/99)

"Late August, Early September" By Charles Taylor
Idealism gives way to compromise for a group of frustrated friends in Olivier Assayas' modest yet moving new film.
(07/07/99)

"South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut" By Stephanie Zacharek
Beneath the veneer of fake dicks and fart jokes, it's really a righteous paean to saying whatever the hell you want.
(07/02/99)

"Wild Wild West" By Stephanie Zacharek
Playful acting and summer-movie spectacle can't save this Will Smith vehicle from runninng off the rails.
(06/30/99)

Vive la différence By Sarah Vowell
A melting pot of several stories, "Summer of Sam" is a sprawling urban epic from Brooklyn's native son.
(06/30/99)

"The Lovers on the Bridge" By Charles Taylor
French filmmaker Léos Carax romanticizes the sleaze and squalor of Paris street life.
(06/29/99)

"An Ideal Husband" By Stephanie Zacharek
Killing us softly with his rapier wit and exquisite profile, Rupert Everett upstages Oscar Wilde.
(06/25/99)

"Big Daddy" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Adam Sandler is cinema's nicest loudmouthed jerk.
(06/25/99)

"The General's Daughter" By Andrew O'Hehir
John Travolta's dancing days are definitely over, but who knew his acting days were numbered, too?
(06/18/99)

"Run Lola Run" By Charles Taylor
The quick-paced German thriller throbs with jump cuts, zoom shots and the speedy sense of an instinctual filmmaker.
(06/18/99)

"The Red Violin" By Andrew O'Hehir
François Girard's opulent omnibus plays horribly out of tune.
(06/11/99)

"Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me" By Stephanie Zacharek
Dr. Evil and gang party like it's 1969.
(06/11/99)

"Limbo" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
John Sayles invents another place where you really don't want to spend much time.
(06/04/99)

"Instinct" By Andrew O'Hehir
Silence of the Man: Anthony Hopkins gets back to nature in this classic Hollywood thriller.
(06/04/99)

"Notting Hill" By Stephanie Zacharek
Julia Roberts plays a superstar; Hugh Grant plays a kicked puppy. Our critic plays dead.
(05/28/99)

"The Loss of Sexual Innocence" By Charles Taylor
Mike Figgis' stylistically extreme sexual autobiography may be a failure, but at least it fails shamelessly.
(05/28/99)

"The Thirteenth Floor" By Andrew O'Hehir
Between the 12th floor and the 14th floor, boredom waits!
(05/28/99)

"Black Mask" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
That thing you fu: Jet Li has all the right moves in the action-packed "Black Mask."
(05/20/99)

"The Phantom Menace" By Charles Taylor
The spirit is willing, but the Force is weak: Finally, "The Phantom Menace." "Star Wars" fans deserve better.
(05/19/99)

"Midsummer Night's Dream" By Stephanie Zacharek
Disenchanted forest: Too many weak performances -- and no, not including Calista's -- prevent Michael Hoffman's opulent "Midsummer Night's Dream" from being more than a mildly pleasurable exercise in ornamentation.
(05/14/99)

"Tea with Mussolini" By Andrew O'Hehir
Endless love: Director Franco Zeffirelli never surrenders his sunny disposition in this semi-fictional adaptation of his memoirs as a youth in World War II-era Italy.
(05/14/99)

"Edge of Seventeen" By Daniel Mangin
Boys to men: "Edge of Seventeen," a film about coming out and of age in the early '80s, trumps the current crop of nice-guy gay films.
(05/14/99)

"The Mummy" By Andrew O'Hehir
All dressed up and no place to go: Despite his studly physique, Brendan Fraser isn't enough of an action hero to keep "The Mummy" from unraveling.
(05/07/99)

"Three Seasons" By Andrew O'Hehir
Poetry in motion: Tony Bui's "Three Seasons" is a cinematic love poem to Vietnam.
(05/07/99)

"Idle Hands" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Hand job: A TV-addicted stoner loses his hand to evil temptation in the lame thriller "Idle Hands."
(04/30/99)

"Entrapment" By Stephanie Zacharek
Stealing beauty: "Entrapment" is a sexy art-heist thriller -- until it goes for the cash.
(04/30/99)

"Election" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Class struggle: The wickedly funny "Election" runs a Pepsodent Reese Witherspoon against Matthew Broderick's rumpled loser.
(04/28/99)

"Jeanne and the Perfect Guy" By Andrew O'Hehir
The bearable lightness of being French: Leave it to the French to make a musical comedy about AIDS -- and to have it actually work. (04/23/99)

"Pushing Tin" By Stephanie Zacharek
Fly boys: John Cusack and Billy Bob Thornton play cowboys and Indians in the air traffic control comedy "Pushing Tin." (04/23/99)

"Existenz" By Craig Seligman
Buzzed on metaphysics: David Cronenberg's "Existenz" imagines a dangerously exotic video game -- and it looks a lot like life.
(04/23/99)

"Life" By Andrew O'Hehir
The facts of "Life": Though it's played for laughs, Eddie Murphy's new comedy offers a dose of realism about the African-American experience.
(04/16/99)

"Hideous Kinky" By Charles Taylor
Road to nowhere: Despite Kate Winslet's enlightening performance, "Hideous Kinky" is a mess.
(04/16/99)

"SLC Punk" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Anarchy in the UT: "SLC Punk" is a slam-dancing "Afterschool Special."
(04/16/99)

"Goodbye Lover" By Charles Taylor
To live and lie in L.A. Roland Joffé does some self-conscious slumming with the sleazy "Goodbye Lover."
(04/15/99)

"Never Been Kissed" By Stephanie Zacharek
Too cool for school: Playing the ugly duckling is a role even Drew Barrymore can't handle.
(04/09/99)

"Go" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Do not pass "Go": The follow-up to"Swingers" is an amiable slice of Tarantino Lite.
(04/09/99)

"Dreamlife of Angels" By Charles Taylor
State of grace: The lovely French film "Dreamlife of Angels" manages to warm hearts without numbing minds.
(04/05/99)

"The Matrix" By Andrew O'Hehir
Short attention spawn: With its myriad action movie references, "The Matrix" is a masterful sci-fi stew
(04/02/99)

"Cookie's Fortune" By Charles Taylor
Easter eggs and bourbon: Robert Altman's "Cookie's Fortune" is Southern Gothic lite -- with a bite
(04/02/99)

"The Out-of-Towners" By Stephanie Zacharek
Everybody hates a tourist: Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin battle the declawed pussycat that is New York in the unfunny remake of "The Out-of-Towners"
(04/02/99)

"10 Things I Hate About You" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
One shrew thing: The Bard gets the 20th century teen-flick treatment
(04/01/99)

"EDtv" By Andrew O'Hehir
And now, a world from our sponsor: Despite the "Truman Show" comparisons; it's a genial -- and almost plausible -- media satire
(03/26/99)

"Mod Squad" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Post-"Mod" Blues: A retro-cool look can't disguise an acid-washed feel
(03/26/99)

"Forces of Nature" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Road awakening: Ben Affleck and Sandra Bullock star in a comedy that packs plenty of scenery, but forgets about chemistry
(03/19/99)

"Ravenous" By Andrew O'Hehir
Dark meat: Though it definitely requires a strong stomach, this may be the best cannibal tragicomedy ever made
(03/19/99)

"True Crime" By Andrew O'Hehir
True prime: He may be pushing 70, but Clint Eastwood just hit his stride
(03/19/99)

"The Rage: Carrie 2" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Grr Power: A supernatural sequel tries a little tenderness, but still goes for gross
(03/19/99)

"Wing Commander" By Andrew O'Hehir
Space opera invaders: If you absolutely, positively can't wait for "Star Wars," this works as frivolous filler
(03/12/99)

"The Deep End of the Ocean" By Andrew O'Hehir
Waiting to exhale: A family drowning in grief resurfaces and doesn't know how to cope
(03/12/99)

"Analyze This" By Stephanie Zacharek
The king of comedy: Robert De Niro gets the lion's share of laughs in Harold Ramis' mob comedy
(03/05/99)

"Cruel Intentions" By Charles Taylor
Keeping bad company: The retro morality of "Cruel Intentions" makes for a pleasurably nasty update of "Les liaisons dangereuses"
(03/05/99)

"Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Bad lads: A hit English crime caper arrives in America jetlagged
(03/05/99)

"8mm" By Andrew O'Hehir
Celluloid zeroes: Joel Schumacher's sadistic "8mm" is expertly crafted crap
(02/26/99)

"Jawbreaker" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Very bad schwings: "Jawbreaker" is a T&A black comedy that teases more than it delivers
(02/26/99)

"200 Cigarettes" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Synth city: The nostalgic '80s soundtrack is the star, but the love stories get lost in shuffle-play
(02/26/99)

"Office Space" By Andrew O'Hehir
Daydream believer: Mike Judge's "Office Space" is a funny, well-meaning ode to anti-ambition
(02/19/99)

"Simply Irresistible" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
Sappy meal: A new food fetish romance may look good on the surface, but it's one stale tale
(02/12/99)

"My Favorite Martian" By Andrew O'Hehir
Killing me softly: Despite its utter irrelevance, "My Favorite Martian" is a benignly amusing family movie
(02/12/99)

"Rushmore" By Andrew O'Hehir
Deadpan poet's society: Wes Anderson "Rushmore" is a work of comic genius. (And Bill Murray's not even trying to be funny)
(02/05/99)

"Gloria" By Charles Taylor
A Stone unturned: "Gloria" proves once again that filmmakers don't know what to do with Sharon Stone
(01/29/99)

"Another Day in Paradise" By Craig Seligman
Paradise lust: Larry Clark's follow-up to "Kids" is less ambitious, less offensive -- and surprisingly funny
(01/29/99)

"She's All That" By Mary Elizabeth Williams
My fair laney: "She's All That" is a conventional teen romance, but with a hip-hop heart of gold
(01/29/99)

"Playing by Heart" By Charles Taylor
Heartburn: Playing by Heart's" trite take on love and relationships leaves a bad aftertaste
(01/22/99)

"My Name Is Joe" By Andrew O'Hehir
Life is bittersweet: British filmmaker Ken Loach returns to working-class Glasgow in his dark masterpiece "My Name is Joe"
(01/22/99)

"In Dreams" By Andrew O'Hehir
The dying game: With echoes of "The Silence of the Lambs," "Nightmare on Elm Street" and "Psycho," Neil Jordan's often captivating "In Dreams" is less than the sum of its parts
(01/15/99)

"The Faculty" By Charles Taylor
It may lack the emotional intensity of old-school horror flicks like "Carrie," but "The Faculty" is still bloody good fun
(01/15/99)

"The Thin Red Line" By Charles Taylor
The big dead one: What was supposed to be Terrence Malick's long-awaited comeback is instead a clichéd, self-indulgent throwback to the '70s
(01/08/99)

"Affliction" By Charles Taylor
Nick Nolte sears as a cop trying desperately not to become his father in Paul Schrader's masterful new film
(01/08/99)

"The Hi-Lo Country" By Charles Taylor
The scenery chews itself in director Stephen Frears' laconic throwback to '70s westerns
(01/04/99)

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