Dave Kehr

Bernardo Bertolucci has attempted something all but impossible with ''The Sheltering Sky'': He has taken a highly literary source-the celebrated 1949 novel by Paul Bowles-which is presented almost entirely through...

With its superb cast and masterful use of Soviet locations, ''The Russia House'' rediscovers the kind of high Hollywood professionalism that has recently seemed all but lost. The complex story,...

Director Tim Burton has designed his strange, funny and powerfully moving ''Edward Scissorhands'' as a myth or a fairy tale. The narrative is framed as a grandmother`s extended response to...

With ''The Rookie,'' Clint Eastwood is clearly fulfilling his unwritten agreement with Warner Brothers: Here is an unabashedly commercial movie intended to compensate for Eastwood`s recent series of artistically ambitious...

Like any good work of popular culture, Rob Reiner`s film of Stephen King`s best-selling book ''Misery'' functions on more than one level. The film is first of all a suspense...

After 17 films, there is now a John Hughes world as instantly recognizable as the Monument Valley of John Ford or the studio-built Paris of Ernst Lubitsch, except that Hughesland...

What began in 1976 as a sincerely intended revival of old-fashioned movie sentiment has ended (or so it is promised) as a cynical fourth-generation sequel, too exhausted even to revive...

The character Kevin Costner plays in his new movie is given the Indian name ''Dances With Wolves,'' though he might as well be called ''Saves the Whales,'' so much is...

''Roger Corman`s Frankenstein Unbound'' (The title is one of those contractually mandated monstrosities) is a time-travel tale that seems to exist, though quite happily, in a time warp. The film...

There`s little doubt that ''Jacob`s Ladder'' is a failure-it`s a messy, unsatisfying and often overreaching film-yet it fails in interesting, ambitious ways. It`s a must-see disaster. Like a lot of...