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1998 Stories by Peter Rainer

• High-order hackwork

  published March 12, 1998

  The John Grisham industry has claimed another heavyweight. A few months back, Francis Ford Coppola delivered up John Grisham's The Rainmaker, and... More >>

• Fade away

  published March 5, 1998

  A movie starring Paul Newman, Susan Sarandon, Gene Hackman, James Garner, and Stockard Channing ought to be a whole lot better than Robert... More >>

• Sucker punch

  published February 19, 1998

  Palmetto is a film noir set in a torpid seaside Florida town. It's based on the James Hadley Chase novel Just Another Sucker, and when we first... More >>

• Picture imperfect

  published January 29, 1998

  In the new Great Expectations, directed by Alfonso Cuaron and scripted by Mitch Glazer, the teeming world of Charles Dickens' 1861 novel is very... More >>

• Hello, Dalai!

  published January 15, 1998

  Martin Scorsese's Kundun is a deeply ceremonial experience. It's like watching a serene pageant of colors, rituals, and costumes. It's about the... More >>

• Violence rules

  published January 8, 1998

  Where would Irish filmmakers these days be without The Troubles? In just the past couple of years, we've seen The Crying Game, In the Name of the... More >>

• Hype and holler

  published January 1, 1998

  While not a movie year to go down in infamy, 1997 was still mostly full of hype and holler. If the annual yield is judged by how many great films... More >>