Thursday, March 26 2009
Part 4: All About My Mother to Sleepy Hollow (October - November 1999)
Outsiders and oddballs make up Part Four's formidable filmmakers, an idiosyncratic collection of dreamers and visionaries.
Thursday, March 10 2005
Law & Order: Trial by Jury
Although a curly hairdo can't quite erase the shade of Frasier's Lilith from Tracy Kibre, Neuwirth slips authoritatively into the role of a powerful mid-career prosecutor.
Thursday, August 7 2003
Le Divorce (2003)
Like previous Merchant-Ivory productions, Le Divorce concerns culture clashes, disruptive expatriates, and squabbles over stuff.
Thursday, February 6 2003
How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days (2003)
She's so cute, he's so cute, everyone's so cute.
Thursday, July 25 2002
Tadpole (2002)
In assuming Oscar's perspective, the film makes out like everyone is as smitten with him as he is.
Sunday, January 1 1995
Deadline
In 'Deadline', Dick Wolf's new show for NBC, no one, least of all the self-satisfied Wallace Benton (played with plumy waspishness by Oliver Platt), seems to care a fig for the story.
Liberty Heights (1999)
This sign, set outside a suburban Baltimore country club in 1954, appears early in Barry Levinson's Liberty Heights, establishing at once the irony of its title (the name of a suburban Jewish neighborhood where its protagonists reside) and the film's focus on the insidious workings of prejudice, ranging from conspicuous to subtle.
