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Barry LevinsonFeatures
Talk, Talk, Talk: October 2008What studio suit thought this was a good idea? With four months to schedule your high priced efforts, you instead unload almost 30 overpriced pictures on an unsuspecting movie audience. [10 September 2008] Reviews
What Just HappenedLess an expose than a recap of what even casual observers of the industry know or intuit, What Just Happened relies on clichés even as it deplores them. [20 October 2008] 
The Natural (1984)What could have been a magnificent comment on this patriotic pastime unfortunately turns in to an emotionally manipulative barrage of iconic imagery. [18 May 2007] 
Man of the Year (2006)The troubles with Barry Levinson's movie are many, including an erratic pace and too many unfunny diversions, but the primary issue, strangely, is its lack of pointed political humor. [13 October 2006] 
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Season 5It frequently expanded cop-show boundaries, occasionally gave in to suits in search or ratings, and most often, surprised fans and detractors alike. [13 October 2004] 
Homicide Life on the Street: The Complete Season 4Unlike most TV fare, especially cop shows, Homicide concerns itself with details and asides that don't always come together into thematic wholes. [26 July 2004] 
Envy (2004)Scheduled to open a year ago, Envy is as dopey, uninventive, and smug as you'd expect from a movie that's 'all from shit'. [29 April 2004] 
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Third SeasonHomicide's third season focuses increasingly on tensions among the detectives, as they endure increasingly personal devastations, over more linear storylines and more sensational murder mysteries. [22 March 2004] 
Homicide: Life on the Street: The Complete Seasons 1 & 2Homicide lays out an utterly compelling and occasionally oblique anti-cop-show premise. [15 March 2004] 
OzNo other fiction show has offered such a frighteningly realistic look inside our nation's prisons or so openly debated their moral and social obligations. [10 February 2003] 
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. [1 January 1995] 
An Everlasting Piece (2000)Just in case there is an audience member who hasn't seen the news since, like, 1970, the film uses this conversation and some supposedly comic comparisons between the Catholic and Protestant neighborhoods to illustrate Colm's inferior position in society (and by extension, the position of Belfast's Catholics generally). 
Bandits (2001)Though it looks like it might have been fun to make, 'Bandits' never becomes subversive or screwball. Blogs
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