Movies
If you’re familiar at all with indie filmmaker Hal Hartley’s work, you know there’s a surreal quality to it.
April 2, 2015
If a boy who really wants a dog doesn’t get one before he turns 13, his parents are never going to get him one.
Oct. 10, 2003
Pity those poor orphans. ‘Lemony Snicket’ looks richly eerie, but beneath the surface there’s no sense of dread.
Dec. 17, 2004
Hollywood movies about Africa are available in both high- and low-culture varieties, and its refined, literary title alone signals that “I Dreamed of Africa” does not want to make common cause with the likes of “Africa Screams,” “Africa--Texas Style!”
May 5, 2000
Susan Sarandon, Julia Roberts and Ed Harris--as well as a strong idea--get lost amid maudlin sentiment.
Dec. 25, 1998
Awards
Many of the filmmakers who emerged from the wave of American independent filmmaking of the late 1980s and early ‘90s, such as Richard Linklater, Quentin Tarantino, Jim Jarmusch and Steven Soderbergh, have remained active.
Sept. 13, 2014
Movie review: ‘Electrick Children’ is oddly conceived flight of fancy
March 7, 2013
As ‘Road to Perdition’s’ skilled assassin, he does a career about-face, resulting in one of his best performances.
July 12, 2002
Workaholic meets kooky free spirit in contrived romance that keeps credibility at bay.
Feb. 16, 2001