Wednesday, December 10 2008
Law & Order: The Sixth Year
This set highlights a show that has been often imitated, but never matched.
Tuesday, July 29 2008
Serial Mom: Collector’s Edition
John Waters’ broad satire on suburbia and celebrity still holds up. Just not in the way he might have expected.
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.
Monday, December 15 2003
The Great Gatsby (1974)
Raises a perennial question: if they can make a decent movie out of The Bridges of Madison County, why not a great one out of one of the best novels of the 20th century?"
Thursday, August 7 2003
Le Divorce (2003)
Like previous Merchant-Ivory productions, Le Divorce concerns culture clashes, disruptive expatriates, and squabbles over stuff.
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.
