Movies
A FESTIVAL FAVORITE The long-awaited biopic of painter Jackson Pollock, which will have its debut at the Venice Film Festival, has been selected as the “centerpiece” film for this fall’s New York Film Festival.
Aug. 20, 2000
This is a small, quiet miracle of a movie in which tenderness, compassion and insight combine to create a tension that yields a quality of perception that’s almost painful to experience.
Dec. 7, 1997
“Heavy” is a small, quiet miracle of a movie in which tenderness, compassion and insight combine to create a tension that yields a quality of perception that’s almost painful to experience.
June 28, 1996
Television
Fear usually isn’t much fun.
July 14, 1990
Film is a slick but sadistic creep show. How this came to be entertainment is anybody’s guess.
Sept. 23, 2002
Given that he’s prone to overacting when he has flesh and blood performers to contend with, co-starring Al Pacino with a computer-generated actress in “Simone” is asking for trouble.
Aug. 23, 2002
Giuseppe Tornatore’s “The Legend of 1900” is a beautiful and venturesome companion piece to the director’s beloved “Cinema Paradiso,” for both are deeply moving affirmations of the power of the imagination.
Oct. 29, 1999
Identity John Cusack, Ray Liotta Columbia TriStar, $28 James Mangold (“Kate & Leopold”) directed this fun thrill ride, a combination film noir and R-rated thriller.
Sept. 4, 2003
Trapped Charlize Theron, Kevin Bacon Columbia TriStar, $28 Watching this smarmy kidnapping thriller is akin to receiving a lump of coal in your Christmas stocking.
Dec. 26, 2002
“Mumford,” the latest film from writer-director Lawrence Kasdan, is a slight yet amusing doodle that depends for its success on audience tolerance for the whimsical antics of the small town’s worth of genial eccentrics it conjures up.
Sept. 24, 1999