If you've come to this page after first perusing my more recent reviews, you may be surprised by how, um, concise these older ones are. This page originally was intended to be read only by my friends, and I simply dashed off a few sentences about each film, providing opinion with no analysis. Since then, my readership has expanded (though not by all that much, really), and so have my reviews -- to the point where I really oughta start dividing them up into more than one paragraph one of these days. (I finally did so in 1997.) Anyway, be prepared for brevity in most of the reviews below; some of them are only a sentence long. (Those for films released in November and December are a bit meatier.)

I apologize for the preformatted text; my knowledge of HTML, which is still very limited, was even more so last year. My laziness, on the other hand, has remained constant, and I haven't bothered to reformat anything.

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  • About These Reviews

  • A Short List of Recommended Films

  • The Addiction
  • Amateur
  • The American President
  • Apollo 13
  • Art for Teachers of Children
  • Augustin
  • An Awfully Big Adventure
  • Babe [second viewing, Aug 2011]
  • The Babysitter
  • Bandit Queen
  • Batman Forever
  • Before Sunrise
  • Before the Rain
  • Beyond Rangoon
  • The Blue Villa
  • Braveheart
  • The Bridges of Madison County
  • The Brothers McMullen
  • Burnt by the Sun
  • Carrington
  • Casino
  • Circle of Friends
  • The City of Lost Children
  • City Unplugged
  • Clean, Shaven
  • Clockers
  • Clueless
  • The Convent
  • Copycat
  • Country Life
  • The Cow
  • Crimson Tide [second viewing, Aug 2011]
  • Crumb
  • Cry, the Beloved Country
  • The Day the Sun Turned Cold
  • Dead Man Walking
  • Dead Presidents
  • Desperado
  • Devil in a Blue Dress
  • Die Hard With a Vengeance
  • Dolores Claiborne
  • Don Juan DeMarco
  • The Doom Generation
  • Double Happiness
  • The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain
  • Ermo
  • Exotica
  • Farinelli
  • Frankie Starlight
  • Funny Bones
  • Georgia
  • Get Shorty
  • The Glass Shield
  • A Great Day in Harlem
  • Grosse Fatigue
  • Heat
  • How to Make an American Quilt
  • I Can't Sleep
  • The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love
  • Kicking and Screaming
  • Kids
  • The Kingdom
  • Kiss of Death
  • Lamerica
  • The Last Good Time
  • Leaving Las Vegas
  • Les Misérables
  • Little Odessa
  • A Little Princess
  • Living in Oblivion
  • Mallrats
  • Miami Rhapsody
  • Mighty Aphrodite
  • Mina Tannenbaum
  • Murder in the First
  • Muriel's Wedding
  • Mute Witness
  • My Life and Times with Antonin Artaud
  • The Mystery of Rampo
  • Nadja
  • New Jersey Drive
  • Nixon
  • Nobody Loves Me
  • The November Men
  • Once Were Warriors
  • Only the Brave
  • Othello
  • Party Girl
  • Persuasion
  • Picture Bride
  • The Postman (Il Postino)
  • Priest
  • Reckless
  • Rhythm Thief
  • Richard III
  • River of Grass
  • Rob Roy
  • Safe
  • The Secret of Roan Inish
  • Sense and Sensibility
  • Se7en
  • Shallow Grave
  • Shanghai Triad
  • Smoke
  • Son of the Shark
  • Strange Days
  • Strawberry and Chocolate
  • The Sum of Us
  • Swimming with Sharks
  • Theremin: An Electronic Odyssey
  • Through the Olive Trees
  • To Die For
  • Total Eclipse
  • Toy Story
  • Twelve Monkeys
  • Two Bits
  • The Underneath
  • Unzipped
  • The Usual Suspects
  • While You Were Sleeping
  • Wild Bill
  • Wild Reeds
  • The Wooden Man's Bride