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America’s Favorite Alien Returns After Twenty Years

To be honest, I really don’t like Steven Spielberg. He’s simplistic, condescending and, the odd for-the-ages shot aside, he isn’t

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Quaid Goes the Distance in ‘Rookie’

Frequently, I wonder what I would do if someone pushed me into a chair and ordered me to write a

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Keeping 'Memento' In Mind

Why bother to complain about the Oscars? Why bother indeed, when these measures of cinematic merit mean very little? This

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Arranging Love and Marriage

Monsoon Wedding isn’t a subtle film. It is, instead, melodrama at its glorious and exuberant best: When the screen isn’t

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A Not So Nice Disney

“Someday my prince will come,” Snow White wholesomely sings in Disney’s first feature-length cartoon. Yes, irritated Z magazine writer Marlene

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Showtime Shines for De Niro

The new comedy Showtime, starring Robert De Niro and Eddie Murphy, features De Niro as a serious, hardworking cop and

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‘Time’ Comes to a Standstill

When the best moment of a movie focuses on the image of changing hemlines in a dress shop window to

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On Kerouac’s Road Again

“Sal, we gotta go and never stop going till we get there.” Fifty years later, Sal and Dean are still

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Life After Death

On August 25, 2001, a late summer night with only the slightest chill hinting at the impending autumn, one of

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'Dragonfly' Lacks Wings

With a leading actor whose best days seem to be behind him and a plotline involving a doctor caring for

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Terminated

Most of you have heard his name. Some of you can even spell it. He’s a man short on talk

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Britney: Not Yet A Girl..Not Yet a Film

Picture the worst film that you can possibly imagine and begin beating yourself with a tire iron. Only then can

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Willis, Farrell: Fighting the Bore War

Bruce Willis’ role in Hart’s War can be gleaned entirely from looking at the film’s promotional poster; his picturesque army

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A Forced 'Occupation'

Last Saturday, Occupation, the documentary about the Progressive Student Labor Movement’s (PSLM) infamous 21-day sit-in in Mass. Hall, premiered at

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High-Speed Hypocrisy

By Steven N. Jacobs Contributing Writer Rollerball, directed by John McTiernan of Die Hard fame, skates into theaters today. Starring

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