- March 22, 1999
- Kubrick: A Fierce Comic Anger
Recalling Stanley Kubrick's furious entertainments.
- March 22, 1999
- "The Harmonists"
- March 22, 1999
- Family Business
In "The Deep End of the Ocean," a boy and his family are reunited after nine years, and the transition is grueling.
- March 15, 1999
- "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels"
- March 15, 1999
- Gangster's Rap
Hot on the heels of "The Sopranos" comes "Analyze This," in which De Niro loses the safety net and swan-dives into parody as a mobster taking the talking cure.
- March 8, 1999
- "200 Cigarettes"
- March 8, 1999
- The Poseurs
Passing itself off as commentary on the dregs of a sleazy industry, '8 MM' indulges its own tawdriness; '200 Cigarettes' is hip -- filtered through a middle-class lens.
- March 1, 1999
- Out of Memory
When hypnosis turns a computer drone into Mr. Cool, "Office Space" suggests a screwball comedy in the great Hollywood tradition -- even if it's not fully realized.
- January 11, 1999
- "A Civil Action"
- January 11, 1999
- You've Got Male
Paul Schrader's "Affliction" offers the bleak, brutal New Hampshire winter as a metaphor for manhood.
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