A wondrous, exuberant, very funny and heartwarming movie by the best new director in many a moon, Peter Chelsom, who also co-wrote the screenplay: A richly-textured show-business film set among Irish immigrants...

Unless you're crazy about incomprehensible shuckin' and jivin'. The banal plot centers around the fact that Woody Harrelson, though white, can actually play good playground basketball. Harrelson and black...

A charming movie, directed by Jon Avnet, about the rural South, now and in the old days. Outstanding acting by Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and the rest of the cast. A paean to the old Southern way of life,...

Long-time readers know that I am decidedly not a fan of foreign language movies: not because it is a chore to read subtitles, but because they are invariably horrible examples of aggressively avant-garde,...

Hollywood has brought us two great, romantic genres, two forms of movies where the war of good versus evil could play itself out against a background of an entire complex fictive world grounded in a present...

This brings me to The Piano, a movie which I fell into in a weak moment. The Piano is far and away the WorstMovie I have seen in many years, perhaps since what may well be the WorstMovie ofAllTime, the...

Why Malcolm X? Why the sudden rage, replete with baseball caps inscribed with X's, for a man assassinated nearly thirty years ago? Partly it's media hype, centered around the new hagiographic movie made...

You would think from the shock ofthe Respectable Media, that Stone's ]FK was totally outlandish, off-the-wall, monstrous and fanciful in its accusations against the American power structure. And you would...

And yet anyone who tries to Learn About History by going to a Hollywood movie deserves to have his head examined. Did we really learn the true story of Moses by watching Charlton Heston, or by seeing the...

A picture about fly-fishing in Montana? For an urban New York type like myself who wouldn't know a fly-fisherman from a surfer, who thinks that fish should be caught in giant nets, and who believes that...

Heralded and beloved by the left as Robert Altman's "comeback" movie, this "satire" on Hollywood is both unfunny and meretricious. Supposedly a critique ofHollywood's commercialism from the standpoint...

The brouhaha over this movie is ridiculous. This is not one of the Major Statements ofOur Time. Basically a film noira tough, sleazy cop-and-murder picture, differing from the old films noir by having...

Social realism, we sometimes forget, does not have to be about the poor, the underclass, or upwardly mobile immigrants. Social realism, even in New York City can be about the glamorous, wealth)!, preppie...

The Old Culture returns in a warm, affectionate story about the American Girls' Professional Baseball League that was established by some baseball owners during World WarII and lasted until the early 1950s....

For once, the Academy Awards were tolerable-not the ceremony which was longer, more boring, and more Politically Correct than ever-but the awards themselves. The Unforgiven was neither my favorite picture...

Zelig, dir. by and with Woody Allen.

In recent years, Woody has been a highly erratic filmmaker. After reaching a glorious peak with the hilarious and perceptive Annie Hall and especially Manhattan,...

Rich and Famous, dir. by George Cukor, with Jacqueline Bisset and Candice Bergen.

This is one of the most odious and repellent movies I have seen in many a moon. It’s not that there are not even...

Red Dawn, dir. by John Milius.

It’s not only the Supreme Court that follows the election returns. Hollywood, too, does its bit, and movie theatres have been increasingly filled with right-wingy...

Swing Shift, directed by Jonathan Demme, with Goldie Hawn.

In the “real world,” we are used to the idea of an integrated, useful, and pleasing product emerging out of organizational chaos. But...