Dave Kehr

Borrowing a page from the Touchstone Pictures production handbook, the powers-that-be at Universal have assembled the following package: 1. A screeenplay, by Herschel Weingrod and Timothy Harris, that is a...

In Michael Caton-Jones` ''Doc Hollywood,'' another obnoxious yuppie gets his comeuppance and rediscovers his humanity, though the process is more pleasant than being shot in the head (''Regarding Henry'') or...

While everyone was looking the other way, Mel Brooks seems to have become an elder statesman. As his films have become more widely spaced (''Life Stinks'' is his first since...

One of the peculiarities of this summer is that, contrary to all logic and expectation, the sequels are by and large turning out to be better than the few remaining...

In the movies, attitudes shift very slowly. Change often occurs through the one-step-forward, two-steps-back formula, in which a progressive social theme is softened and made acceptable by a fiercely reactionary...

In their infinite wisdom, the Classification and Rating Administration of the Motion Picture Association of America recently created the NC-17 rating: No Children Under Seventeen Admitted. What we need now,...

It may be possible to review ''The Naked Gun 2 1/2: The Smell of Fear'' without giving away any of the jokes, but I doubt it. The film, in any...

Consciously or not, Julia Roberts has been working her way through the major subdivisions of what was once, in the `30s, `40s and `50s, called the ''women`s picture.'' Her ability...

Bland and soon forgotten, ''The Rocketeer'' is a disappointingly well-behaved summer blockbuster. It doesn`t have the ego excesses of a ''Dick Tracy,'' the mad wastefulness of a ''Die Hard 2''...

The overwhelming impression left by ''Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves'' is one of unpleasant bodily fluids flowing freely. When the characters aren`t bleeding, they`re spitting. As directed by Kevin Reynolds...