April 29, 1989 | Miracle Mile is an audacious doomsday thriller with a 20-megaton impact. Deceptively simple and relentlessly gripping, it represents American independent moviemaking at its most exciting and accessible…
February 6, 2004 | Maybe you've heard what Miracle is all about, and have already decided to give it a pass. Take my advice: Think again. In lesser hands, this…
June 21, 2002 | In Minority Report, the stunning sci-fi noir thriller directed by Steven Spielberg, the day after tomorrow doesn't appear at first glance to be very different from today.…
October 19, 1990 | “Nobody knows anybody -- not all that well!'' These are words to live by, voiced repeatedly -- sometimes angrily, sometimes almost sadly -- as the personal credo…
February 29, 1996 | Why, indeed, must the show go on? This question is of more than academic interest to Joe Harper (Michael Maloney), a high-strung, chronically unemployed British actor who…
November 21, 1997 | Even at two and one-half hours, Clint Eastwood's film of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil isn't nearly long enough to encompass all the amusing…
February 3, 1995 | Miami Rhapsody is the funniest Woody Allen movie ever made by someone other than Woody Allen. Right from the start, as Sarah Jessica Parker faces the…
July 2, 1997 | There is a marvelous blend of kicky exuberance and deadpan drollery throughout Men in Black, a tongue-in-cheek sci-fi action-adventure that leaves Batman and Robin far behind,…
December 27, 2002 | Several people who really should know better have condemned Max without actually bothering to see it. Indeed, I know of at least one respected critic who…
May 15, 2003 | In the last exciting episode of The Matrix, future-worldly computer hacker Thomas Anderson (Keanu Reeves) discovered his true calling as savior of humankind. Renaming himself Neo,…