Dave Kehr

''Driving Miss Daisy'' is a film that proves just how indirect and attenuated a love story must be to get by today`s movie audience. Bruce Beresford`s film version of Alfred...

''Enemies, A Love Story'' is the latest example of director Paul Mazursky`s almost mystical ability to discover exactly the right project for the precise cultural moment in which he finds...

The four best nice comedies: ''Getting It Right'' ''Cousins'' ''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' ''Breaking In'' The four best mean comedies: ''The `burbs'' ''Penn and Teller Get Killed'' ''The Big...

''Always'' is the grownup movie Steven Spielberg has been reaching for since ''The Color Purple.'' A deeply felt, greatly moving melodrama based on models from the `30s and `40s, the...

The chances of Dustin Hoffman giving a restrained performance in a Sidney Lumet film are roughly the same as those for a snowball`s survival in the inner circle of Hades....

The sheer extremism of Danny DeVito`s black comedy ''The War of the Roses'' is staggering; the movie, with its occasional narrative missteps and overwrought visuals, is a bit less so....

Even before Aunt Bethany`s cat is electrocuted under the armchair and Uncle Lewis` cigar incinerates the Christmas tree, the holidays aren`t going so well for Clark Griswold and his model...

Eric Rohmer, who has so often made films about vacations (from ''Claire`s Knee'' to ''Pauline at the Beach''), has finally taken one himself. He filmed the quartet of anecdotes that...

Maverick animator Don Bluth seems determined to go head to head against his former employers at Walt Disney Studios. Just as last year at this time, Bluth`s new feature, ''All...

The Belgian film ''The Music Teacher'' belongs to the tradition of pedagogic drama-tyrannical teacher, suffering student-that reached its pinnacle with Michael Powell`s ''The Red Shoes'' of 1948 and has recently...