Poysti’s subtle, layered performance conveys Tove’s complex dilemma with sweetness and pain. This is a portrait not of a lady on fire, but of a woman struggling to strike the match.

Spider Baby has built up a reputation as an offbeat gore thriller, depicting two children who have inherited evil blood and are slasher-basher- gasher murderers. [25 Oct 1992, p.35]

“Money Shot” is not for the squeamish. You can’t be the type to blush from late-stage capitalism or the daily life of an angelic webcam star who hangs her sex toys on a shoe rack and buys lube by the gallon.

It's reassuring to see Steven Soderbergh return to riveting down-and-dirty filmmaking with Bubble.

An emotionally charged coming-of-age saga that will make you laugh and cry, maybe at the same time.

The Lost Boys is a horror movie that's funny without making fun of itself and scary without trying to make you sick. [31 Jul 1987, p.86]

The problems with Thanksgiving are many, starting with the awful script by Jeff Rendell. Not only is the story — concocted by Roth and Rendell — predictable, but there is not one clever line of dialogue in the whole 107-minute film. The cast and characters are bland.

A clever and often riotous burst of cynicism that pushes some pretty questionable ideas.

There so much entertaining information in Art & Copy, a documentary about modern advertising, that it takes a while to realize we are being sold something

An extremely good picture that, with a little tweaking, might have been a great one.

Goes to all the places a sensitive character study might have gone, but more dramatically, convincingly and vividly.

Tequila Sunrise is a sharp-looking, tantalizing romantic thriller whose assets overcome a labored plot and several lapses into L.A. hipness that result in sheer inscrutability. [2 Dec 1988, p.E1]

Interesting and often compelling, and a must-see for organic food zealots.

Too much of what we see feels contrived and ham-handed.

A familiar feel-good story told through an unseen perspective, Anything’s Possible is an overdue inclusion of trans youth in the celebratory innocence of the coming-of-age genre.

Definitely worth your time, if not your $9.50. In other words, wait a few months and definitely check it out as a rental.

Isn't vicious. It's just cheerfully mocking as it courses the canyons and flatlands of Los Angeles.

Anybody with a soft spot for fakers, who either identifies with them or just admires their chutzpah, is going to get a kick out of Happy, Texas.

Richly satisfying entertainment the way movies are at their best, when they prod you to think.

A mostly superb cast, superior special effects, a sparkling musical score and a fantasy-filled plot .

Oh, Hi! is that rare case, a movie that’s engaging and interesting moment by moment, but everything else is wrong with it.

Intimate, quietly illuminating documentary.

It's a sumptuously mounted melodrama that aims to make a big statement about big themes, but a stilted quality in the filmmaking drags it down.

Exactly one minute longer than its predecessor, but it's a dragged-out exercise, with no epic scale and no spirit worth talking about.

Still, “Lee,” based on Antony Penrose’s biography of his mother, “The Lives of Lee Miller,” is an interesting look at an artist whose true importance, unfortunately, became apparent only many years after her death.

The last half hour and the lively opening make us almost forget the movie’s so-so middle. It brings all the elements together, points to the future and keeps the action to a human-scale minimum. If you want to see Solo: A Star Wars Story, I wouldn’t talk you out of it.

Entertaining, but it's about one notch below being something anybody really needs to see.

Arizona Dream is an inspired, erratic goulash that ignores standard movie- making formulas.