Dave Kehr

Following in the footsteps of F.W. Murnau (''Nosferatu''), Tod Browning (''Dracula'') and Carl Dreyer (''Vampyr''), Francis Ford Coppola has taken his crack at the legend of the undead. As promising...

Hollywood`s fixation on serial killers continues with ''Jennifer Eight,'' a dank, claustrophobic, not very involving film about an emotionally damaged detective, played by Andy Garcia, who may or may not...

Jules Dassin`s ''Night and the City,'' released by Twentieth Century Fox in 1950, is one of the most hard and pure of all films noir-the story of an American hustler...

Alfred Hitchcock`s great stories of crime and punishment took place within a fully ordered cosmos, complete with heaven, hell and a fiercely judgmental, hopelessly remote deity. The new breed of...

Given the current political climate, it`s hard to see how any film about Christopher Columbus could make everybody happy, and indeed, Ridley Scott`s ''1492: Conquest of Paradise'' seems unlikely to...

Gussied up with Technicolor scenery and filled out with conventional, audience-pleasing sequences, Robert Redford`s film of Norman Maclean`s celebrated story ''A River Runs Through It'' emerges as hopelessly middle-brow-the kind...

A confused and confusing mixture of genres and tones, John Landis` horror comedy ''Innocent Blood'' is consistent only in its unpleasantness. Much as the immortal ''Billy the Kid vs. Dracula''...

Let`s pretend for a moment that ''Husbands and Wives'' is just another Woody Allen movie. He`s done better. Always more of a mimic than a filmmaker with a style and...

When Nicholas Ray, the brilliant but erratic director of ''Rebel Without a Cause,'' filmed ''King of Kings,'' a 1962 Biblical epic starring teen heartthrob Jeffrey Hunter, the Hollywood wits of...

The latest chapter in the eternally unfolding emotional and spiritual autobiography of filmmaker Paul Schrader, ''Light Sleeper'' does away with many of the distracting metaphors and structural devices that have...