Dave Kehr

Finally emerging from five years of false starts and retakes, ''The Two Jakes'' isn`t the disaster one might have expected, nor is it quite what one might have hoped. Written...

Runaway best seller or not, there`s no getting around the fact that Scott Turow`s ''Presumed Innocent'' was a whodunit, and whodunits have seldom made satisfying movies. Alan J. Pakula`s adaptation...

It is possible that henceforth, film history will be divided into two periods: before ''Navy SEALs'' and after ''Navy SEALs.'' Possible, but extremely unlikely. To be fair (and one must,...

It`s a particularly great pleasure to encounter ''Quick Change,'' a wonderfully loose and graceful character comedy, in the middle of the sensory assault conducted by this summer`s megahit movies. Star...

Universal Pictures has missed a boat the size of the Queen Mary with ''Jetsons: The Movie,'' a big-screen version of the `60s television series. It settles for being a barely...

In ''Ghost Dad,'' Bill Cosby pushes his face in the camera and twists it up, and this continues for approximately 90 minutes. The film, directed by Sidney Poitier, is incredibly...

An irritating blend of the dull and the repellent, ''RoboCop 2'' is every bit as sadistic as its 1987 predecessor but considerably less effective. The violence is so drastically overscaled,...

''Dick Tracy'' is Warren Beatty`s least adventurous and least satisfying work as a filmmaker, a flimsily constructed, emotionally inert movie that seems to represent a sad compromise between Beatty`s personal...

When a young TV comic named Eddie Murphy made his movie debut seven years ago in Walter Hill`s ''48 HRS.,'' he was still establishing his persona, working up the characteristic...

''Back to the Future Part III'' is a much better movie than the hasty, cynical second episode of the series, though for reasons that don`t have much to do with...