Gene Siskel

Our Flick of the Week is the dim-witted ''National Lampoon`s Christmas Vacation,'' the third and easily the worst in the series of hapless adventures of the Griswold family of suburban...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Back to the Future Part II,'' which turns out to be a surprisingly oppressive, rapid-fire, noisy, gadget-filled action picture lacking the emotion of the...

Our Flick of the Week is the uneven adaptation of ''Steel Magnolias,'' the popular play of Southern women coping with assorted crises. The story line is patterned after ''Terms of...

Milos Forman, the Oscar-winning director of ''One Flew Over the Cuckoo`s Nest'' and ''Amadeus,'' says he is as surprised as anyone that he was able to make yet another film...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Staying Together,'' an offbeat family drama directed by Lee Grant, one of few women directors in Hollywood. To its credit, the film dares to...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Limit Up,'' which deals with the nasty world of futures trading. ''Limit Up'' is an amateurish attempt at a lighthearted look at the Chicago...

Our Flick of the Week is ''The Bear,'' a version of the ''Bambi'' story told with trained bears that turn in the most naturalistic performances of the year. Set in...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Fat Man and Little Boy,'' a dramatization of the real-life drama of the development of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Japan in...

Our Flick of the Week is Woody Allen`s ''Crimes and Misdemeanors,'' a cynical comic drama about the success-oriented Eighties. Martin Landau stars as a successful New York doctor who gets...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Old Gringo,'' a turgid throwback to the style of historical epic that happily went out of date decades ago. Jane Fonda wanders through the...