Dave Kehr

There isn`t a better time at the movies right now than ''Earth Girls Are Easy,'' a delirious pop musical directed by Julien Temple as a widescreen swirl of color and...

''Scandal'' is, inescapably, a docudrama, a close relation of those dangerous TV movies that, taking advantage of the libel laws, reduce complex historical events to cozy domestic melodramas, complete with...

There once there was only silence, the Vietnam film has become so common and codified that any new effort needs a gimmick to distinguish itself from the pack. Such is...

''Field of Dreams'' is a movie very much under the sway of Steven Spielberg. But its writer-director, Phil Alden Robinson, has done something his master hasn`t been able to do-move...

When a movie is called ''Disorganized Crime,'' somehow you already know that you`re not in for an evening of sparkling originality. But this dim comedy takes a wheezy idea and...

''Say Anything'' seems doomed to come and go very quickly, thanks to its flat title and the sad fact that there`s little on the surface to distinguish it from the...

Last summer`s unlikely boom in baseball movies resumes this year with David Ward`s ''Major League,'' a film that is neither as cloyingly sentimental as ''Eight Men Out'' nor as engagingly...

In ''Heathers,'' the sensibility of late-night television collides with the substance of an after-school special. The film, directed in a cutty, freaked-out, De Palma-like style by Michael Lehmann, is a...

With all of its obvious virtues and nagging faults, David Lean`s 1962 ''Lawrence of Arabia'' will always occupy a place in movie history as the first neurotic epic. Never before...

The three-part anthology film ''New York Stories'' travels from the self- laceration of Martin Scorsese to the self-satisfaction of Woody Allen, with a pause in between for a bizarre flight...