Tag: 1990s
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‘The Juniper Tree’: A Feminist Spin on a Fairy Tale Featuring a Pre-Fame Björk
Nietzchka Keene’s most famous feature is more admirable than absorbing, but it has some stunning black-and-white visuals and a performance from a 21-year-old Björk that shows how fully formed her singularity was from the outset.
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Cats and Mice
‘Out of Sight’ is a great time, though it’s its two leads who really make it sizzle.
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The Slow Simmer of ‘Summer of Sam’
Much about Spike Lee’s last movie of the 1990s is dynamic and engaging, but it’s hard not to feel, after a while, like he’d explored much of what it covers better earlier in his career.
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The Darkness and Light of ‘A Perfect World’
Kevin Costner is tremendous in Clint Eastwood’s winding, affecting road movie.
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‘Waterworld’ Sinks Fast
This sopping-wet riff on the ‘Mad Max’ series has a couple of terrific action sequences and not a lot else.
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‘Edge of Seventeen’: A Wonderful Coming-of-Age Movie with Few False Notes
Even when the narrative of the film itself isn’t always, it’s a joy to watch a gay coming-of-age movie that neither sugarcoats things nor emphasizes hardship.
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‘Kindergarten Cop’ is Surprisingly Delightful
This preposterously conceived 1990 comedy comes together a lot better than you might think.
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‘Disturbing Behavior’: An Uneasy Riff on ‘The Stepford Wives’
It’s always watchable, but this ostensible horror comedy is never particularly scary or particularly funny.
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Odds & Ends: April 2024
Notes from the last month.
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‘Dogfight’: A Tender Precursor to ‘Before Sunrise’
Nancy Savoca’s period romance does a lot with a little.
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‘My Own Private Idaho’ is Lucky to Have River Phoenix
Writer-director Gus Van Sant’s insistent overstylization would sink the film if not for the heartbreaking, vivid work of the late actor.
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‘Jawbreaker’ Could Stand to Go Even Further
Obviously indebted to 1989’s ‘Heathers,’ the teen comedy needs to be finer-tuned for the darkness — and preposterousness — of its premise to fully work.
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