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John Boorman

  • Film

    May 8, 1997

    Star whores

    With The Fifth Element, Luc Besson swipes from science fiction past to create a slick, vacuous future

  • Film

    June 25, 1998

    Tone deaf

    The Land Girls starts out as a promising weepie, but loses its way

  • Film

    December 10, 1998

    Money changes everything

    A Simple Plan dishes up a frozen treat from a moral deep freeze

  • Film

    December 31, 1998

    Eight is enough

    Hollywood mainstream in the slipstream: hits, misses, remakes, and blasts from the past

  • Film

    February 4, 1999

    Through the past starkly

    Brian Helgeland gamely reimagines a pulp legend in Payback

  • Film

    April 8, 1999

    Man at the top

    The General adroitly animates real-life Irish crime boss Martin Cahill

  • Calendar

    April 15, 1999

    Gadzooks

    The General adroitly animates real-life Irish crime boss Martin Cahill

  • Film

    May 13, 1999

    No need for sympathy

    In Tea, Zeffirelli paints an annoyingly whimsical version of WWII

  • Film

    August 19, 2004

    Paddled Senseless

    This send-up of Deliverance comes without a brain, too

  • Film

    October 16, 2003

    Saint Veronica

    A slick remake of a barely fictionalized biopic renders Irish reporter Guerin's story as Hollywood truth

  • Film

    February 14, 2002

    Peter Panned

    You could Return to Never Land, but why waste the trip?

  • Film

    October 14, 1999

    Out of sight

    The Limey proves style can sometimes enhance the gritty substance

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