- 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.
- December 14, 1998
- In Brief: "Central Station"
- November 29, 1998
- "Liberty Heights,""Sleepy Hollow," and "The World Is Not Enough"
- October 19, 1998
- Creepiness
In the brilliant, disturbing 'Happiness,' Todd Solondz gets in close to his characters, only to find misery in search of company, cruelty disdainful of absolution.
- October 12, 1998
- In Brief: "Lolita"
Adrian Lyne's sober "Lolita" misses Nabokov's joke.