`ALIEN’ IS BRAIN-DEAD ON ARRIVAL
Our Flick of the Week is "Alien Resurrection," the fourth in the metal-teeth-and-slime series, with Sigourney Weaver's tough-as-nails Ripley character having been cloned from drops of her blood following her...
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GREAT ACTING IN EASTWOOD’S `MIDNIGHT’
Our Flick of the Week is "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil," director Clint Eastwood's beautifully realized treatment of the best-selling book about high crimes and misdemeanors in...
BIG NAMES CAN’T SPARK THIS `JACKAL’
Our Flick of the Week is "The Jackal," a needless, pointless remake of a superb thriller, Fred Zinnemann's 1973 handbook on a world-class murderer for hire, "The Day of the...
2 BIG NAMES CAN’T SAVE `MAD CITY’
Our Flick of the Week is the maddeningly disappointing "Mad City," in which heavy-duty stars John Travolta and Dustin Hoffman perform in an utterly unoriginal satire of tabloid media and...
`RED CORNER’ NO THREAT TO CHINA
Our Flick of the Week is "Red Corner," which is noteworthy only as a political act by actor Richard Gere and certainly not as a film. A simple-minded attack on...
`GATTACA’ IS REFRESHINGLY AN IDEA FILM
Our Flick of the Week is "Gattaca," a particularly brainy and thoughtful science-fiction picture, and what a rarity that is. Much of the genre is filled with futuristic doom and...
`BOOGIE’ GROOVES TO AN OFF BEAT
Our Flick of the Week is "Boogie Nights," a beautifully made survey of '70s excess, filtered through the trashy world of the burgeoning porno film industry in southern California. We...
FLAWED `TIBET’ STILL A GOOD JOURNEY
Our Flick of the Week is "Seven Years in Tibet," which works for precisely the reason you might not expect and is less than satisfactory for what should have been...
`U-TURN’ HEADS FOR NOWHERE
Our Flick of the Week is Oliver Stone's insufferable violent comedy "U-Turn," in which Sean Penn stars as a guy driving to Las Vegas to pay off a debt to...
DIRECTOR TAKES CHARGE OF THRILLER
Our Flick of the Week is "The Peacemaker," in which first-time feature-film director Mimi Leder breathes life into a tired genre -- the stolen nuclear warhead thriller -- and a...