Even in the classiest movie summer of the decade, Mob is destined to demand respect for Pfeiffer. [19 Aug 1988]

Tucker is the best Capra movie since Capra quit making them himself. [12 Aug 1988]

The crucifixion is the strongest such scene of all time. [26 Aug 1988]

It's slick, melodramatic, even inherently trashy - but a blue-chip moviegoer investment. [11 Dec 1987, p.1D]

Too lingeringly creepy to ignore. [23 Oct 1992]

Uniformly robust acting puts still more feathers in the caps of Rush, Winslet and Caine.

The result is almost enough to make an audience levitate.

Paradis is a most striking subject, but the movie is a winner as well, starting with a story full of black-comic possibilities exploited fully by the great French director Patrice Leconte.

This sleek adaptation of James Ellroy's dauntingly complex novel has the black-and-white tabloid soul of an old "Confidential" magazine.

Proves there are Holocaust stories still to be told.

Majidi tells his simple story with dazzling vision.

One of those movies in which pacing, dialogue and the right actors enliven a familiar story.

With his coolly objective moon's-eye view serving a story that's bizarre by even his long-established career standards, the great documentarian Errol Morris examines the perils of vanity - though others will understandably make more sinister interpretations.

Warren Beatty's uproariously rude Bulworth is 90% triumph.

An emotionally honest low-ebber that builds to a satisfying wrap-up.

The plan in A Simple Plan grows exponentially complex once the first dollar is purloined, an act that makes this unpretentious parable one of the season's better 'what's-going-to-happen-next?' movies.

In a role as tailor-made for him as the story is for its writer and director, Nicolas Cage anchors the movie with one of his best performances.

Twenty years ago, you could view early works of big-splash directors and often tell where they were coming from - or going. Yet Soderbergh and his debut project are mysteries. What can possibly come next? You won't be able to drag me out of line opening night. [4 Aug 1989, Life, p.1D]

Both the material and the way it's delivered by the movie's comic quartet are so funny.

True to the book's squalor but also finding honest humor where it can.

Overstuffed but exuberantly humane.

A 2-hour classic wrongfully stretched into three.

It's a tough entry into the tough black-comic genre; don't be surprised if it becomes a classic. [31 March 1989]

If Silver is superb, Irons is transcendent. As some forgotten comic once said of George Sanders: A grapefruit wouldn't dare squirt in his eye. [17 Oct 1990]

This is one of the best re-creations ever of the early-'50s Midwest. [11 Sept 1987, Life, p.3D]

A robustly imaginative sleeper

A little movie almost perfectly realized.

The gritty, Oscar-nominated "Traffic" is a limo ride compared with the bloodletting in this year's foreign-film nominee from Mexico.