Badlands (1973)

A rather splendidly repellant film about a rather extreme case of sex addiction

An occasionally funny chick-flick that tries to do too many things at once

Men in Black, directed by Barry Sonnenfeld from the comic book by Lowell Cunningham, is offered as a justification for weird sort of benign paranoia. The government, we are asked to believe, really knows all about the alien presence in our midst (that much is familiar) but they are keeping the knowledge of it from…

A gripping and well-made Italian film that never quite gets around to answering the biggest of the questions it raises

There is scarcely a cliché of the 1990s Hollywood thriller that is not to be found in Switchback, written and directed by Jeb Stuart. By now, the figure of the serial killer — so rare in nature, so common in the movies — has become such a familiar one that a filmmaker like Stuart will…

Is Adam Sandler the model of manhood for young adults today as Paul Newman or Marlon Brando were for their parents or Gary Cooper or Clark Gable for their grandparents?