<P>It begins with the trajectory of a speck. We watch as it floats through the jungle of Nool, a wisp of nothingness that's a self-contained planet in its own cosmos. It's a dot, on a clover. But as Theodore Geisel knew -- and any child will af… [详细内容]
<P>Show people are different from you and me -- more high strung, more amusing, more devil-may-care -- but not, as István Szabó's resolute charmer "Being Julia" shows us, as different as we may think. </P>
<P>Annette Bening plays Julia Lamb… [详细内容]
<P>A precocious piglet overcomes barnyard prejudices and his place in the food chain to become the world's first championship sheep hog in "Babe," a captivating comic allegory about daring to be different in the face of conformity. With its pop… [详细内容]
<P>Wayne Wang's "Last Holiday" is a movie lost in time and space, and not just because it's a remake of a 1950 Alec Guinness picture. Queen Latifah plays Georgia Byrd, a shy New Orleans department store clerk and skilled amateur cook who, after… [详细内容]
<P>Next to Independence Day, Trainspotting may be the most hyped motion picture of the summer. Miramax Films, the distributor that saturated the market with ads for The Crying Game in 1992- 93 and Pulp Fiction in '94, has struck again. Trainspo… [详细内容]
<P>No adaptation of an Oscar Wilde play should go wrong when it stars Rupert Everett: He simply gets Wilde in his bones, without being hamstrung by an urge to somehow freshen the material or make it feel more "modern." He was bliss to watch in … [详细内容]
<P>Upon cursory examination, A Perfect World may seem like a buddy movie crossed with a road picture, but the film's surprising emotional depth transcends that which is normally found in either genre. In fact, what starts out like a good old Cl… [详细内容]
<P>Drew Barrymore in Never Been Kissed? Improbable as it sounds, the effervescent young movie veteran defies expectations and gives her all to the role of a nerdy teenager turned nerdy adult in this genial comedy about the nightmare side of hig… [详细内容]
<P>Gladiator is the kind of movie upon which Hollywood once built its reputation but rarely produces anymore: the spectacle. Filled with larger-than-life characters, gorgeous scenery, impressive set design, and epic storytelling, Gladiator is d… [详细内容]
<P>Shall We Dance? is a remake of the 1997 Japanese feature by the same name. Penned and directed by Masayuki Suo, that film was an unexpected pleasure - a feel-good feature that wasn't weighed down by the unnecessarily cloying melodrama and ma… [详细内容]
<P>Like something from out of the past itself, Somewhere in Time is an old-fashioned romance that came out at a time when such movies were no longer being made. Missing an audience at the time of its release, both commercially and critically, … [详细内容]
<P>"'Til death do us part" rarely works in Hollywood, where screenwriters bring soul mates back as actual souls to haunt the loved ones they've recently departed.</P>
<P>The latest spirit disturbed for the good of a joke is Kate (Eva Longoria… [详细内容]
<P>"Take the Lead" begins with rudeness, ends with good manners, and argues that poor inner city schools can be redeemed by ballroom dancing. The only thing wrong with this vision, I suspect, is that it works for the ballroom dancers but not fo… [详细内容]
<P>Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters," the best movie he has ever made, is organized like an episodic novel, with acute little self-contained vignettes adding up to the big picture.</P>
<P>Each section begins with a title or quotation on … [详细内容]
<P>Sometimes the hardest movies to review are the ones that are middle-of-the-road, bland and completely uninspiring, movies like "December Boys." </P>
<P>There's nothing wrong with "December Boys," exactly, but there's nothing really right w… [详细内容]