An Immodest Proposal What they did to "Eyes Wide Shut" is just the most recent example of the MPAA's increasingly clueless despotism. It's time to scrap the ratings system. [08-30-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Skin Deep Why should black sit-coms be any better than their white ancestors? [08-23-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Circle Jerks It's easy to hate the director Goran Paskaljevic's "Cabaret Balkan," so why are you laughing? [08-23-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Fresh Claire "Brokedown Palace" lets melancholy Claire Danes escape from her type-cast prison. [08-16-99] — Alicia Potter, THE BOSTON PHOENIX A Private Idaho Twins Mark and Michael Polish's "Twin Falls Idaho" is a tribute to separation anxiety. [08-16-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Where It All Went Wrong At some point, even the best TV series go bad, and jumptheshark.com is out to document the demises. [08-09-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Fall Guy Eric Rohmer's "Autumn Tale" might not be a vintage work, but it's a lot more bracing than most of the cinema ordinaire on tap this summer. [08-09-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX On the Video Beach From "Saving Private Ryan" to "Surf Nazis Must Die," the beach has played a major role in cinema. [08-02-99] THE BOSTON PHOENIX Shut and Dried With an opening-weekend gross of $22.8 million, Eyes promises to be the most lucrative and artistically mediocre achievement of director Stanley Kubrick's career. [07-26-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Off the Rails The NAACP got everyone's attention last week when it pointed out that none of the 25 new shows on the big four networks this fall has an African-American in the lead. [07-26-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Dream "Lovers" Released in 1991 to horrendous reviews and little viewer interest, Leos Carax's "The Lovers on the Bridge" also seemed, like "Eyes Wide Shut," set to be its director's last. [07-26-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Hex, Lies and Videotape "The Blair Witch Project" is a thrill so fresh and obvious, it's a wonder no one did it before. [07-19-99] — Peter Keough, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Election Year Are Hollywood movies worse today than ever before? Well you have to go back to 1919 to find a worse crop of films that we've had year to date. [07-19-99] — Gerald Peary, THE BOSTON PHOENIX See Lola Run Filmmaker Tom Tykwer's "Run Lola Run" puts German cinema through new paces. [07-05-99] — Gerald Peary, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Power Trips TNT's "Pirates of the Silicon Valley" is a battle of stereotypes and "After Stonewall" stops short of criticizing anybody who's gay. [06-21-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Disney Goes Ape In "Tarzan," Disney applies the usual themes to a powerful myth. [06-21-99] — Jeffrey Gantz, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Bello Bolero Wim Wenders' new documentary, "Buena Vista Social Club," is a masterpiece of grace. [06-21-99] — Josh Kun, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Shagadelic! Postmodern irony is no match for gentle shagadelic silliness. Who wouldn't want to escape to Austin Powers's world? [06-14-99] — Gary Susman, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Lust is All Around The richest irony running throughout HBO's "Sex and the City" is that the main characters have every kind of sex imaginable except the comfortable, relaxing kind. [06-14-99] — Robert David Sullivan, THE BOSTON PHOENIX Un-Cannes-y? At Cannes this year, it wasn't just filmmakers who embraced positive thinking but film critics as well, even the usually iconoclastic. [06-07-99] — Gerald Peary, THE BOSTON PHOENIX More Movies Archives...
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