Lili Taylor

Being Flynn Can't Stop Telling Us Exactly What to Feel

Brooklyn's Finest

Supermarket Sweep

Male fulfillment and lack thereof, on full display in The Promotion

Starting Out Novelistic and Intelligent

PYT seduces her literary hero in the astute Starting Out in the Evening

The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

Sundance: The Music Men

Halfway through Sundance, and still whistling a happy tune

Being Bettie

The Notorious Bettie Page never quite pins down the pinup

Sa-Weet!

Deadpan irony is the rule in this triumphant high school geek comedy

Diaper Dreams

John Sayles drags six would-be mothers down to la Casa de los Babys

High time

John Cusack's romantic comedy about a man... and his record collection

You creep

The Haunting, or: We ain't 'fraid uh no ghosts

Short takes

The Haunting, or: We ain't 'fraid uh no ghosts

A slightly dirty dozen

Although many standout films were released in 1998, no one movie really stood out

Two if by sea!

Stanley Tucci one-ups 1930s screwball comedies with The Impostors

Camera-ready, willing,and able

John Waters gets a few things straight about the art world

Lost weekend

This story of blue bloods trying to keep up with the Kennedys is well-acted and too much

Road to nowhere

Kicked in the Head reveals the truth about nothing

Tough love

In the Company of Men is one brutal valentine

Crime doesn't pay

Desperate men take desperate measures in Palookaville and Ransom

Attack of the harpies

Girls Town and The First Wives Club celebrate female vengeance

Busy signal

Denise Calls Up babbles away, then hangs up on you

Bull's-eye

I Shot Andy Warhol fatally wounds an American legend

USA Film Festival

I Shot Andy Warhol fatally wounds an American legend

Scratch that itch

The Addiction writes a manifesto for blood lust

Gut punches

Two entries in the short film anthology "Short Stuff" are harrowingly effective

Rag trade

Robert Altman's surprisingly leaden look at the fashion industry is all dressed up with nowhere to go