Review: ‘The Crew’
Trend-spotters, take note: Just a few weeks after Clint Eastwood, Tommy Lee Jones, Donald Sutherland and James Garner blasted off as geriatric astronauts, here come Richard Dreyfuss, Burt Reynolds…
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Review: ‘In a Heartbeat’
Disney's original high school drama series "In a Heartbeat" has characters every bit as appealing as anything you'd find on the WB, only a heck of a lot smarter. Focusing on the lives of young…
Review: ‘High Infidelity’
The theater season has scarcely begun, but it can be confidently predicted that the next nine months will bring no sorrier spectacle than "High Infidelity," a hopeless, hapless comedy that somehow…
Review: ‘Buzztopia Tour’
The concept of having three acts that tap into the eclectic blend of rock, jazz, blues and regional music bears a heavy debt to Bill Graham's bookings at the Fillmore West in San Francisco in the…
Review: ‘The Little Vampire’
Dracula's brethren get the politically correct treatment in "The Little Vampire," a mildly entertaining but dramatically messy kidpic in which a poor bunch of misunderstood bloodsuckers, reduced to…
Review: ‘Light Up the Sky’
A word of thanks to Eric Stoltz and Frank Wood, life rafts of sanity and aural clarity in the Williamstown Theater Festival's rackety, mostly miscast and misdirected revival of Moss Hart's 1948…
Review: ‘Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye’
Fox, not exactly known for its wealth of made-for-TV originals, is raiding the vaults of 20th Century Fox B movies from the '40s and '50s and remaking them under its original film noir banner Kiss…
Review: ‘Jayhawks; Guster’
It's been said that pop music has never been more raunchy and in-your-face than it is right now -- and while there's some validity to that point, those making it usually ignore the equal-and-opposite…
Review: ‘The Luzhin Defence’
An obsessive Russian chess master is struck by Eros' arrow beside Lake Como in "The Luzhin Defence," a smoothly made period romancer that's elevated by strong playing from its whole cast, led by John…
Review: ‘The Darker Face of the Earth’
"The Darker Face of the Earth" is a puzzling theatrical experience. The lead performances are impressive, the language lovely, the narrative relatively compelling, the design attractive and the…
