Dave Kehr

Two more stylized, marionette-ish performers than Goldie Hawn and Steve Martin would be hard to come by, though in ''Housesitter'' they have been matched with the perfect director-Frank Oz, the...

Retired CIA analyst Jack Ryan (Harrison Ford) would rather stay home and play Monopoly with his gorgeous eye-surgeon wife Cathy (Anne Archer) and his cute, precocious daughter Sally (Thora Birch),...

Carl Franklin`s ''One False Move'' is a happy and timely reminder, as we head into a summer of anonymous megaproductions, of how talent can flourish on a tiny budget. This...

The beginning is best in ''Howards End.'' This latest collaboration of producer Ismail Merchant and director James Ivory kicks off with a brightness and vivacity that has seldom appeared in...

''The Player`s'' cult status is already guaranteed in New York and Los Angeles, where its wrist-slapping satire of the movie business will flatter everyone`s sense of being an insider. It...

The most impressive single element of ''The Babe'' is the magnificent rubber nose that has been glued to John Goodman, turning Roseanne`s husband into a dead ringer for legendary home...

''Straight Talk'' wouldn`t be much without the unstoppable likability of Dolly Parton, playing a straight-shooting, corn-pone-philosophizin g country girl who accidentally lands a job as an on-air psychologist at a...

Because many of the classic Soviet films were never properly registered for copyright in the United States, they are available on video from a number of different sources, though in...

Launched last year by ''The Silence of the Lambs,'' Hollywood`s fascination with the serial killer as superstar continues with ''Basic Instinct,'' a cold, repellent, commercially potent thriller that, cleverly, never...

''The Mambo Kings'' doesn`t happen-despite an attractive cast, invigorating music, handsome period production design and a Pulitzer Prize-winning source novel. The fault largely seems to lie with director Arne Glimcher,...