A glib satire with a slick surface, lots of snappy patter and nothing to sell but its own cleverness.

A mini-masterpiece, with lean filmmaking and lots of surprises.

There should be more American family movies like Pete’s Dragon. Since there aren’t, we should get behind this one.

Made mostly by white people, it's a film largely about how awful white people are -- just the kind of thing many white viewers will love and consider important. But however you might feel about this kind of movie, Map of the Human Heart is fake merchandise, an unfelt, boring travelogue that covers itself in its anti-racist, anti-war message and then dares audiences to notice its barrenness at the core. [14 May 1993, p.C6]

The engaging HBO documentary Rock Hudson: All That Heaven Allowed, both a guilty pleasure and meaningful slice of queer history, delivers a loving yet irony-laced tribute to a closeted movie icon whose tragic death from AIDS changed the course of the epidemic and cemented his place in LGBTQ lore.

Ultimately, “The Long Walk” is a heartfelt metaphorical drama about people bonding under duress. Instead of focusing on the darker side of human nature one might expect from the average dystopian film, it finds power in small acts of connection.

A grim and sometimes funny examination of life on the margins and of a singular artist's world.

A smart, arch and rather cold-blooded comedy.

Too slick but amusing marital farce.

A strange almost-thriller.

The movie is laugh-until-your-stomach-hurts hilarious.

Much of The Tracker, a blunt morality tale about Australian racism, is heavy going.

A glossy miscalculation.

Intimate, heartfelt and wickedly funny, it's a movie whose impact lingers.

The filmmakers put their faith in a character, not fireworks, and the result is big blockbuster that feels more like a sweet little movie.

As much as anything we’ve seen in recent years, the film is confirmation that artists, not paranoid executives, continue to make the big calls at Disney. And as long as that continues, a few glitches in the plot won’t ruin anyone’s good time.

The film perhaps shines brightest when it depicts two telling relationships Nannerl has outside her family. The first is with Louis XV's 13-year-old daughter, Louise...The other relationship is with Louise's troubled brother, the dauphin.

This film is family.

The new Robert De Niro film with Bill Murray, Mad Dog and Glory, is just off-balance enough that it may throw audiences off, too. It is not a romantic comedy by a director who can't do that particular dance, but a strange hybrid between comedy and drama. [5 Mar 1993, p.C1]

War Game is one of the more timely and disturbing movies of recent months.

Favoring precision filmmaking over cheap thrills, with a vibe more Alfred Hitchcock than Freddy Krueger, Red Eye establishes two intelligent characters and lets audiences sit back and enjoy an entertaining battle of brains and wills.

Trumbo is welcome just to bear witness to the severe consequences meted out to one man who dared to do the right thing.

For the most part, however, Proxima enthralls with its deep dive into the mechanics of astronaut training. Green presents a woman with the right stuff for it, but maybe she can’t give up the parts of herself the job demands. It’s a stress test the actress passes with flying colors.

Visually accomplished and loads of fun.

The film’s writer-director is British-born Sabrina Doyle, who is making her feature debut after spending the past decade in Los Angeles making short films. Her touch is nearly perfect: authentic, patient, guiding — giving her actors plenty of space. And they respond.

Though specific to the stories of its central characters, this documentary is as complicated as life. It’s happy, sad and uncertain — genuinely moving and uplifting, yet never reassuring.

A provocative character study and portrait of the times.

Colorful and sweeping.