Kevin Thomas

An adroit, beautifully acted, sophisticated film with some drier-than-dust humor about unsophisticated people and is impressive as such. It's too bad that it's not more engaging much earlier on.

Ichaso moves easily between a black-and-white past and a full-color present, maintaining a pace as buoyant and rhythmic as the beat of the infectious Latin music that accompanies the film.

A ruggedly beautiful landscape of desert and sea provides a dramatic setting for a psychological drama told with the utmost rigor--and unabashed eroticism.

Lively, incisive and comprehensive documentary.

More than three decades later, Jodorowsky’s vision of chaos has acquired a powerful aura of prophecy.

Towering over one and all, not surprisingly, is Finney as the increasingly tormented but brave Alfie. [22 Dec 1994]

Director Satyajit Bhatkai has brought plenty of energy to an imaginative and thoughtful script by many hands.

Instead of a genre movie-industry calling card, Roy has made a venturesome and effective film.

In the Mouth of Madness is a thinking person's horror picture that dares to be as cerebral as it is visceral.

Would that all love stories were as sophisticated and amusing as the satisfying Charlotte Sometimes.

Philadelphia filmmaker Cheryl Dunye has such a light, easy touch both in front and in back of the camera that you're in danger of not noticing how skillful a craftsman she really is or how deftly she raises serious issues of race and sexual orientation in The Watermelon Woman.

The very title suggests that this compelling and provocative film is going to be different from other Holocaust documentaries.

Boiling Point is taut and crisp, and when it’s required, Harris handles violence with swift dispatch rather than the large-scale fireworks that have become de rigueur.

For all its poignancy, Spork never loses sight of its goal to be zesty, sharp-witted fun.

The effect is dazzlingly beautiful and surreal.

As stylish as it is grisly, Jeepers Creepers has cult film written all over it, and it's not for nothing that Francis Ford Coppola has been a staunch Victor Salva mentor.

Writer-director Richard Day has come up with a delicious cliché of a plot to allow talented female impersonators Jack Plotnick, Clinton Leupp and Jeffery Roberson to strut their stuff. The result is a nonstop hoot.

Such a powerful experience that it is equally effective whether you have figured out from the start where it is headed or whether its denouement comes as a complete surprise.

Sachs has pulled off a film of inferences and intimations, thanks largely to the casting of accomplished actors.

Made with such verve and clarity that you don't have to be a basketball fan to enjoy it.

It is classical in form yet fresh and spontaneous.

A rousing, warmhearted comedy, as infectious as the gospel music it celebrates.

Drawn from Rabe's diaries, the film is rich in telling and ironic details.

Captivating new documentary, The Gleaners and I, is charged with the pleasure of discovery.

It's a handsome and skillful retelling of a legend that imaginatively draws on conventions of both the western and the gangster movie to create an energetic yet thoughtful contemporary action-adventure.

It's a downright refreshing experience to be presented with people you can identify with, recognize yourself in them, without being asked to like them.

In her vibrant !Women Art Revolution Hershman focuses on a number of the many women who created what has been called the most significant art movement of the late 20th century.

It brims with the charm, wisdom and light touch that have endeared French films to international audiences for more than a century. It doesn't hurt that its star is "Amelie's" Audrey Tautou.