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…
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…
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…
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…
Notting Hill
May 28, 1999 | If you’re in the market for a love story with lots of laughs, consider the unlikely pairing of a timid bookstore owner and the world’s most…
Serendipity
October 5, 2001 | Like so many other things in life, film criticism isn’t fair. So you shouldn’t be surprised if some of our snippier reviewers toss barbed brickbats at…
The Glass House
September 14, 2001 | There’s something weirdly fascinating about a thriller as potently trashy as The Glass House, something almost indecently attention-grabbing about the lurid overstatement of its B-movie melodramatics.…