WASHINGTON MAJOR TALENT IN MYSTERY `MIGHTY QUINN`
Our Flick of the Week is the first surprisingly excellent film of the new year, ''The Mighty Quinn,'' a murder mystery with reggae music that is set in Jamaica. Denzel...
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`COUSINS` IS LAUGH FILLED AND CLEVERLY COMPLICATED
Our Flick of the Week is ''Cousins,'' a surprisingly good remake of the 1975 French romance ''Cousin, Cousine.'' The American version has a more comedic tone along the lines of...
`HER ALIBI` IS MORE LIKE POSTER ART THAN A MOVIE
Our Flick of the Week is ''Her Alibi,'' the disappointing pairing of two fine physical specimens, model Paulina Porizkova and Tom Selleck. Neither is a major acting talent, but both...
`PHYSICAL EVIDENCE` USES `DIRTY HARRY SYNDROME`
Our Flick of the Week in these fallow times for new films is ''Physical Evidence,'' another pathetically bad film starring Burt Reynolds, who thankfully has refocused his lack of energy...
`BEACHES` A SLOW-SPEED, EMOTIONAL ROLLER COASTER
Our Flick of the Week is ''Beaches,'' a much too mechanical tearjerker about the tears and laugh-filled friendship between an earthy singer and an uptight rich woman. Bette Midler and...
`TOURIST` A SAGE COMEDY MIXED WITH BROKEN HEARTS
Our Flick of the Week is ''The Accidental Tourist.'' William Hurt turns in another superior performance in this adaptation of Anne Tyler`s best seller about an uptight travel writer whose...
`WORKING GIRL` PLUCKINESS AN ENTERTAINING UPDATE
Our Flick of the Week is ''Working Girl,'' an extremely entertaining updating of the traditional story of a plucky young woman who takes on the big boys of business and,...
BILL MURRAY PROVIDES LOTS OF LAUGHS IN `SCROOGED`
Our Flick of the Week is ''Scrooged,'' a contemporary, special-effects version of ''A Christmas Carol'' with Bill Murray playing Scrooge as a network TV boss. The film works very well,...
`HOTEL TERMINUS` SCATHING ACCOUNT OF ANTI-SEMITISM
Our Flick of the Week is ''Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie.'' The great documentary filmmaker Marcel Ophuls (''The Sorrow and the Pity'') again tackles the subject...
`THE GOOD MOTHER` A GOOD CHARACTER FILM FOR KEATON
Our Flick of the Week is ''The Good Mother,'' in which Diane Keaton plays a more serious version of the character she explored in ''Baby Boom.'' This time there are...