Contact – Review

October 1, 1997

When all is said and done, Contact isn’t about aliens; it’s about faith, a neo-new age treatise on religion.

Cop Land – Review

October 1, 1997

Writer/director James Mangold obviously didn’t want to take any chances, so not only is Stallone’s Freddy Heflin, the sheriff of a small New Jersey town populated by crooked New York cops, a badge-wearing slug, but he’s also deaf in one ear.

Spawn – Review

October 1, 1997

The best thing about the movie is John Leguizamo as the Clown/Violator. As he carts around 20-30 lbs. of foam-rubber costume, crouched over to look about five feet tall and wide, and making it look natural, he gets to spew the best one-liners of the movie.

Donnie Brasco – Review

October 1, 1997

It plays like the American Playhouse version of Scorsese – insightful, dramatic, but stripped of oomph.

Face/Off – Review

September 1, 1997

Face/Off is an exceptional film, and hopefully, John Woo will return with another great cast and script, and continue to raise the standard of action films.

Vegas Vacation – Review

September 1, 1997

Zany Clark Griswold drags his lovely wife and two kids (played by, um, some new kids), off to Vegas for another two fun-filled hours of Ghastly Griswold Tales.

Trigger Happy – Review

September 1, 1997

Trigger Happy never falls victim to its own stylishness, nor does it shoot itself in the foot while juggling too many egos and outlandish subplots.

Touch – Review

September 1, 1997

Unlike Leonard’s stylish Get Shorty, Touch is basically a syrupy love story with one small difference: This guy can heal people.

The Crucible – Review

September 1, 1997

It opens with a voodoo ritual in Puritan Salem where there’s a flash of nubile breasts and buttocks, and Winona Ryder killing a chicken and drinking its blood.

Swingers – Review

September 1, 1997

Will Mike’s ex-girlfriend call him? Will he receive the message when she does? Will he ever have sex again? Will I care?

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