Saturday, October 22 2005
Stay (2005)
Often evocative, sometimes audacious, and finally undone by an inelegant close, Stay is less interested in story than in impressions.
Tuesday, September 27 2005
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order
Lynda Carter's villain embodies Cold War momism refitted for the war on terror. The conflagration is inspired.
Tuesday, July 12 2005
Father of the Bride: 15th Anniversary Edition (1991)
Maybe it's asking too much for a lighthearted comedy to raise any significant questions. But it can't be asking too much to expect the film to make sense.
Monday, October 4 2004
Law & Order / Law & Order: Special Victims Unit / Law & Order: Criminal Intent
D'Onofrio plays Goren superbly, as a jittery autodidact so deeply aware of his own psychological fragility that he has simply abandoned any emotional life outside his own insights into the motivations of major criminals.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Law & Order
Though 'Law & Order' frequently, and most chillingly, tells tales of true crime -- the monstrous pit bull is the most recent example -- it also treats them with the dread, indeed, the disgust they deserve.
