Thunderbolt (1995)
If you watch Jackie Chan’s films only for the two or three lengthy, well-choreographed fight scenes, and are able to sit patiently through ninety more minutes of bad drama in between, perhaps you will...
Category: Drama
White Palace (1990)
WHITE PALACE is bolstered by a novel idea for a romance, gaining much of its freshness from material that isn’t often explored in most love stories made in Hollywood, or anywhere else for that matter. ...
The Daytrippers (1996)
The Daytrippers stars Hope Davis as Eliza, who one day finds an anonymous letter addressed to her husband (Tucci), seemingly romantic in nature. Although her marriage seems to be fine, she consults with her family...
Schindler’s List (1993)
Sometimes a film is more than a film. Sometimes it’s an indefinable experience, so gripping and engaging that you soon forget you are even watching a movie. Schindler’s List is one such film. Without a...
The Good Thief (2002)
The Good Thief is a loose remake of the classic French film, Bob le Flambeur, and with all of the heist films that have come out in recent years, I suppose it would seem as good...
A Man Apart (2003)
I hate to see talented actors and a good directorial job go to waste on a derivative script. A Man Apart just doesn’t deserve someone as skillful at the action as F. Gary Gray or...
More American Graffiti (1979)
All of the gang but Richard Dreyfuss from the original classic nostalgia flick American Graffiti reunites for the completely superfluous sequel. Yep, they’re all back, but what’s not back is the magic and inspiration, as this...
Liberty Heights (1999)
Liberty Heights marks the fourth time writer-director Barry Levinson has made a film set in his hometown of Baltimore (Diner, Tin Men, and Avalon are the others), and when you write about what you know, chances are you’re...
The Rachel Papers (1989)
Call it a British version of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, only less successful. Normally I would knock a film for clearly going into plagiarist mode in style, but to be honest. when it’s in Ferris-mode,...
The Remains of the Day (1993)
Another beautifully crafted literary adaptation from the team of Ismail Merchant and James Ivory, The Remains of the Day ranks among their very best work. Their names are already synonymous with the genre of the British...