August 12, 1988 | Like the immigrant undertaker who seeks justice from Don Corleone at the start of The Godfather, filmmaker Francis Coppola believes in America. And in Tucker: The Man…

March 19, 1999 | Clint Eastwood once again demonstrates his master craftsmanship on both sides of the camera in True Crime, a beat-the-clock thriller with an edge of moral gravity. The…

March 15, 1991 | The best way to appreciate True Colors is to pretend it's really some divertingly trashy best-seller, the sort of high-gloss potboiler you don't mind staining with suntan-oil fingerprints…

July 17, 1986 |   Quirky and compelling, Trouble in Mind is a moody, bluesy evocation of romantic melancholy, filtered through a movie-informed consciousness and viewed through the bottom of an…

August 29, 1996 | On the day I saw The Trigger Effect, David Koepp's disquieting thriller about survival and suspicion in the wake of a massive power blackout, I spent several hours…

March 12, 1999 | Perhaps you thought Barbara Adams, that prospective juror who showed up for a Whitewater trial in full Starfleet Commander regalia, seemed a little peculiar. If so, then Trekkies,…

August 13, 1986 | OK, kids, let me see if I have this straight.   In the world of The Transformers: The Movie, the good robots are the blue-eyed Autobots, the…

October 30, 1987 |  No one in his right mind would call Tough Guys Don't Dance a great movie, or even a very good one. In fact, there are whole…

January 23, 2004 | In June 1985, two young British climbers attempted to scale the previously unclimbed west face of Siula Grande, a 21,000-foot peak in the Peruvian Andes. Undaunted…

December 19, 1997 | The big iceberg doesn't make its first appearance until 97 minutes or so into James Cameron's three-hour-plus Titanic. And when it finally does brush against the "unsinkable"…