Dave Kehr

Every generation gets the Huckleberry Finn it deserves, and this generation gets Elijah Wood, the saucer-eyed, cute-as-a-button child star of "Radio Flyer," "Paradise" and "Forever Young." He's a TV Huck,...

"A Far Off Place" is an outdoor adventure for older children that is uncommonly well-crafted and resonant. The first theatrical feature to be directed by the talented cinematographer Mikael Salomon...

Dark, challenging and thoroughly strange, "Mad Dog and Glory" is precisely the kind of quirky, personal project that the major studios have long since purged from their production charts. That...

"Falling Down" never decides what kind of movie it wants to be, though all of its options seem equally obnoxious. The tale of a nameless white-collar worker (Michael Douglas) who...

As connoisseurs of splatter comedy will already know, hiding behind the blandly generic title "Army of Darkness" is actually "Evil Dead III," the latest but apparently not the last installment...

The art of the movies is sometimes a matter of personal expression, sometimes a matter of matching the perfect vehicle to a particular star. The latter is the case with...

Translated into Hollywoodese from the original Dutch, George Sluizer's "The Vanishing" loses more than its language. The point of view of this fable-like thriller has vanished as well, shifting from...

Joe Dante's "Matinee" is a warmer, wittier, far more authentic American counterpart to "Cinema Paradiso"-a movie about moviegoing that returns that experience to its proper place in the hierarchy of...

Going to the movies these days requires a doctorate in theology, or so it is beginning to seem. After last week's "Alive," which turned an episode of cannibalism among a...