Movies: Shots in the Dark – Column

June 1, 2000

When they were kids, they needed movies to thumb noses at their parents, and now are eager for films like American Beauty and Simpatico which offer appeasement for those who have turned into their parents, only with greater hypocrisy and less taste.

Boogie Nights – Review

September 1, 1998

Boogie Nights is, on the whole, an assiduously ardent portrayal of the rise to prominence and penetration into the mainstream of pornographic film in the 1970s.

Boogie Nights – Review

December 1, 1997

Anderson loves each of his characters for all their flaws and failings, letting them put themselves through the wringer but always welcoming them home.