Gene Siskel

Our Flick of the Week is Walter Hill`s offbeat action picture ''Johnny Handsome,'' which is longer on character than most recent films in the same genre. Refreshingly, character is the...

Our Flick of the Week is Ridley Scott`s ''Black Rain,'' starring Michael Douglas as a New York detective in Japan tracking an Asian Mafioso. The crosscultural action picture might have...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Sea of Love,'' a sexual thriller of the ''Fatal Attraction'' school. Al Pacino plays a veteran New York City detective chasing a killer who...

Our Flick of the Week is ''Romero,'' an earnest but excessively righteous telling of the radicalization and 1980 assassination of Salvadoran Archbishop Oscar Romero. At first Romero supports the status...

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Our Flick of the Week is ''Wired,'' the embattled film version of Bob Woodward`s investigative book about the life and mostly the death of John Belushi. Judy Jacklin Belushi, John`s...

Our Flick of the Week is Brian DePalma`s ''Casualties of War,'' a Vietnam War story that we know all too well. Michael J. Fox, playing a soldier with more credibility...

Our Flick of the Week is Steven Soderbergh`s prize-winning ''sex, lies, and videotape,'' a refreshingly frank examination of the lives of four contemporary adults defined by their sexuality. The quartet...

Our Flick of the Week is Ron Howard`s first-rate dramatic comedy ''Parenthood,'' with Steve Martin headlining a first-rate cast in a most clever script about the joy and pain of...

Our Flick of the Week is the oddball detective comedy ''Turner & Hooch,'' starring Tom Hanks and a mangy dog named Hooch. For what it`s worth, this dog- a De...