Dave Kehr

The opening credits of David Lynch`s ''Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me'' conclude with an exploding television set-Lynch`s way of promising, one supposes, that this theatrical extension of his once...

''Rapid Fire'' at least takes the bull by the horns. Directed by Dwight H. Little from a screenplay by Alan McElroy (the team responsible for ''Halloween IV''), this lively though...

''Single White Female'' is what Hollywood now calls a ''hot button'' thriller-a film that exploits a common psychological weakness, such as a mother`s natural suspicion of a nanny who takes...

With ''Unforgiven,'' Clint Eastwood has created an adult Western that can stand with the great accomplishments of the genre`s golden age-John Ford`s ''The Searchers,'' Howard Hawks` ''Rio Bravo,'' Anthony Mann`s...

''Death Becomes Her'' will probably provide a break in the consistent string of commercial hits that director Robert Zemeckis has enjoyed since 1984: ''Romancing the Stone,'' ''Back to the Future''...

Filmmakers as ambitious and idealistic as the Canadian director Atom Egoyan are today an endangered species. They deserve to be protected, no matter how costly or inconvenient the process may...

''Honey, I Shrunk the Kids'' was a very pleasant surprise when it slipped into theaters three summers ago-a family film with enough wit, energy and grace of execution to hold...

Two years ago, Craig Lucas wrote and Norman Rene directed ''Longtime Companion,'' a small, sentimental film that turned to the themes and techniques of classical Hollywood melodrama to treat the...

Made in 1940, ''Pinocchio'' remains perhaps the most perfect of the great Disney animated features-the most expressively animated, the least pretentious, the best balanced between horror and joy, adventure and...

Given a free hand to create the sequel to ''Batman,'' director Tim Burton has come up with a far more personal film than his 1989 original. There are flashes of...