About These Reviews



A Short List of Recommended Films



(Note: Clicking on any of the film titles below will generally place you, rather abruptly, in the middle of one of my weekly columns, and many of the reviews begin with some sort of reference to the preceding review, which you may not yet have read. When in doubt, therefore, scroll. You'll find my star ratings up at the top.)


  • Absolute Power
  • Afterglow
  • Ah-Chung
  • Air Force One
  • Alien Resurrection
  • Amistad
  • Anastasia
  • The Apostle
  • As Good As It Gets
  • Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery
  • Bang
  • Black & White & Red All Over
  • The Bloody Child
  • Boogie Nights
  • Box of Moonlight
  • The Boxer
  • The Bread and the Vase
  • Breakdown
  • Brothers in Trouble
  • Capitaine Conan
  • Career Girls
  • Chasing Amy [third viewing, Mar 2012]
  • Chronicle of a Disappearance
  • Conspiracy Theory
  • Conspirators of Pleasure
  • Contact
  • Crash
  • Cyclo
  • The Daytrippers
  • Deconstructing Harry
  • Deep Crimson
  • The Designated Mourner
  • Destiny
  • The Devil's Advocate
  • Diary of a Seducer
  • Donnie Brasco [second viewing, Aug 2011]
  • East Side Story
  • The Edge
  • The Eighteenth
  • The End of Violence
  • Eve's Bayou
  • Face/Off
  • FairyTale -- A True Story
  • Family Name
  • Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
  • Fire
  • Flamenco
  • For Ever Mozart
  • Forgotten Silver
  • 4 Little Girls
  • From Today Until Tomorrow
  • The Full Monty
  • G.I. Jane
  • Gabbeh
  • The Game
  • Gattaca
  • Good Will Hunting
  • Gray's Anatomy
  • GRIDLOCK'd
  • Grosse Pointe Blank
  • Guantanamera
  • Gummo
  • Habit
  • Hamsun
  • Happy Together
  • Hard Eight
  • Hercules
  • Hollow Reed
  • Hoodlum
  • The House of Yes
  • How I Spent My Summer Vacation
  • The Ice Storm
  • In & Out
  • In the Company of Men
  • Irma Vep
  • Jackie Brown [third viewing, Dec 2011]
  • John Grisham's The Rainmaker
  • The Keeper
  • Kitchen
  • Kolya
  • Kundun
  • L.A. Confidential
  • La Promesse
  • Liar Liar
  • Licensed to Kill
  • Lilies
  • Little Angel
  • The Long Way Home
  • Lost Highway
  • The Lost World: Jurassic Park
  • Love Serenade
  • Ma vie en rose
  • Martín (Hache)
  • Men in Black
  • Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
  • A Mongolian Tale
  • Mrs Brown
  • Murder at 1600
  • My Mother's Courage
  • My Sex Life, or How I Got into an Argument
  • Nénette et Boni
  • Night Falls on Manhattan
  • Nowhere
  • One Night Stand
  • Oscar and Lucinda
  • The Pillow Book
  • Ponette
  • Portland
  • Pretty Village, Pretty Flame
  • Prisoner of the Mountains
  • Private Parts
  • The Quiet Room
  • Rainclouds over Wushan
  • Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
  • Saint Clara
  • Salut Cousin!
  • Schizopolis
  • Scream 2
  • A Self Made Hero
  • Shall We Dance?
  • She's So Lovely
  • Sick: The Life & Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist
  • Soul in the Hole
  • Squeeze
  • Star Maps
  • Starship Troopers [second viewing, Dec 2011]
  • subUrbia
  • Sunday
  • The Sweet Hereafter
  • Telling Lies in America
  • Temptress Moon
  • Titanic
  • To Have (Or Not)
  • Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern
  • Ulee's Gold
  • Ulysses' Gaze
  • Underground
  • The Van
  • Waco: The Rules of Engagement
  • Wag the Dog
  • Waiting for Guffman
  • Washington Square
  • The Watermelon Woman
  • Welcome to Sarajevo
  • When the Cat's Away
  • Will It Snow for Christmas?
  • The Wind in the Willows
  • The Wings of the Dove
  • The Winner
  • Year of the Horse