Fruitvale Station
July 19, 2013 | Although he has a real-life story of relatively recent vintage to tell in Fruitvale Station – one that, in light of the Trayvon Martin killing and its…
Action Jackson
February 12, 1988 | Faster than a speeding hit man, more powerful than a ninja killer, and able to leap over careening taxis in a single bound: Jericho Jackson is…
Household Saints
October 1, 1993 | During an intense heat wave in the summer of 1949, some cardplayers in New York’s Little Italy go a little crazy. Joseph Santangelo (Vincent D’Onofrio), a sly…
Four Little Girls
February 20, 1998| Time is a thief that robs us of the past. As years go by, memories fade, outrage cools and witnesses are forever silenced. Which is all the more…
Texasville
September 28, 1990| It’s 1984 in the Texas town of Anarene, and things have changed a lot in the 30-odd years since the last picture show closed down. Duane Jackson (Jeff…
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…
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…