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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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