Five Corners
May 7, 1988 | Playwright John Patrick Shanley wrote the script for Five Corners long before turning his attention to Moonstruck, the film for which he earned this year’s Academy…
A Man of No Importance
January 13, 1995 | Some actors are content to rely on safe tricks and familiar tics as they grow older. Others — Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood — are more eager…
Ruby
March 27, 1992 | In sharp, striking contrast to the flash and filigree of Oliver Stone's stylistically brilliant JFK, John Mackenzie's Ruby, the latest bit of Warren Commission-bashing, has the low-rent look and blunt-edged…
Flesh and Bone
November 5, 1993 | Slowly, mesmerizingly, Flesh and Bone unfolds as a dark and brooding drama that rewards your patience with the cumulative impact of a primal myth. A tale…
Jean-Louis Trintignant of A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
December 30, 1986 | First, the bad news: Contrary to what you might have thought after seeing Claude Lelouch’s lushly romantic A Man and a Woman (1966), the lovers did not…
Tremors
January 19, 1990 | Cross a 1950s-style monster rally with a redneck comedy of bad manners, then add a generous dose of campy cleverness, and you get Tremors, the first…
Who’s That Girl
August 11, 1987 | There’s no punctuation mark at the end of the title — Who’s That Girl — and that’s appropriate. Because the title isn’t a query, just a…
The Sapphires
April 6, 2013 | It’s got a great beat, and you can dance to it, so I’ll give The Sapphires four out of four stars. This sassy and spirited Australian import —…
Skin Deep
March 6, 1989 | Skin Deep is Blake Edwards’ new and greatly improved version of The Man Who Loved Women, his less-than-successful 1983 remake of Francois Truffaut’s comedy of romantic…
Mye Hoang — Director of the A-Meow-Sing Documentary Cat Daddies
October 8, 2021 | Call it Kedi — American Style, and you won’t be far off the mark. Cat Daddies, Mye Hoang’s irresistibly appealing documentary, is so insightfully observed,…