Dave Kehr

"MOUSE HUNT" (star)(star)(star) 6, 9 p.m., TOON A cute slapstick children's adventure about a couple of bumbling brothers (Nathan Lane and Lee Evans) who inherit a valuable but decaying old...

BASIC CABLE "HOFFA" (star)(star) 4:15 p.m., AMC "Hoffa's" Hoffa is so remote and so thinly conceived that this imposing widescreen production, with its decade-leaping production design, dozens of speaking parts...

PREMIUM "LITTLE MAN TATE" (star)(star)(star) 8:45 p.m., ENC "Little Man Tate," which was written by Scott Frank ("Dead Again") but extensively reshaped by Jodie Foster, tells of the struggle for...

BASIC CABLE "DAVE" (star)(star)(star)1/2 8 p.m., HALL The story of an idealist (played by Kevin Kline) who finds himself caught up in the cynicism of politics. It's a film of...

"A RIVER RUNS THROUGH IT" (STAR)(STAR) 4:45 p.m., TCM Gussied up with Technicolor scenery and filled with conventional, audience-pleasing sequences, Robert Redford's film emerges as the kind of diluted, prettified...

`WHEN HARRY MET SALLY' (star)(star)(star) 8 p.m., HMRK The theme of Rob Reiner's new film is no less grand than that of romantic fatality -- the couple that is destined...

The Shakespearean equivalent of one of Leonard Bernstein's fondly remembered Young Peoples' Concerts, Kenneth Branagh's "Much Ado About Nothing" presents a pleasant, simplified, heavily emphatic version of a classic text....

Michael Caton-Jones' direction lies like a very slick sheet of ice over "This Boy's Life," a 1950s coming-of-age story based on the autobiographical novel by Tobias Wolff. What ought to...

Paradoxically, "Benny & Joon" is largely about Joon and Sam, Joon being a talented, attractive but emotionally disturbed young woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) who becomes involved with Sam (Johnny Depp),...

Leo (Maxime Collin) is a bright French Canadian boy who is desperate to escape from his family, a collection of obsessives, psychotics and trembling misfits that includes a homicidal grandfather...