Dave Kehr

Hooch is a hulking, remarkably ugly red mastiff, with tiny yellow eyes and a serious slobbering problem; Turner (Tom Hanks) is a compulsively neat small-town cop who inherits the dog...

The symmetry is appealing: A teasing blond (Bridget Fonda), a shy brunet (Annabeth Gish), a bookish redhead (Page Hannah) and a raven-haired beauty (Phoebe Cates), all Southern belles in the...

There are no friends like old friends, and James Bond, back for the 16th time in an Albert R. Broccoli production, proves to be every bit as reliable as ever....

As crooned by Mel Gibson to Danny Glover, the anthem of ''Lethal Weapon 2'' goes something like this: ''We`re back! We`re bad! You`re black! I`m mad!'' There really isn`t much...

''Great Balls of Fire'' puts the Jerry Lee Lewis story in the hands of filmmakers who seem either uninterested in telling it or unwilling to, perhaps because many of the...

''Batman'' is weird, all right, but maybe not weird enough. The idea of doing a dark, neurotic, highly stylized and highly claustrophobic superproduction is an audacious and appealing one, but...

The Soviet film ''Little Vera'' is a movie that has been devoured by its own publicity-specifically, by the campaign to promote its leggy star, Natalya Negoda, as the Soviet Union`s...

''Star Trek V: The Final Frontier'' is unquestionably the dullest entry in the ''Star Trek'' series, yet it also has an appealing no-nonsense side: It may be the first skeptical...

''Pink Cadillac'' is the most graceful, warm-hearted and engaging of Clint Eastwood`s comedies. Though the direction has been signed by Buddy Van Horn, Eastwood`s longtime colleague, the identity of the...

In the Hollywood of old, most directors spent their careers laboring in total obscurity, but nowadays, when agents negotiate ''A Film By . . .'' credits on every beardless UCLA...