Melanie Griffith

Jessica and Zayra: Not Quite Good Enough

Phallus idols

Nobody's Fool and Legends of the Fall peddle icons of masculinity

Oys and girls

Renee Zellweger makes a convincing Jewish feminist rebel in A Price Above Rubies

Fatal detraction

Adrian Lyne's Lolita takes the high-minded low road

Night & Day

October 22 - 28, 1998

Glamour shot

Woody Allen dissects fame, art, and sex in Celebrity

Paradise muddled

For Larry Clark, the family that strays together stays together

Fish Out of (Frozen) Water

Renee Zellweger as the anti-Norma Rae

Held Hostage

Proof of Life kidnaps the audience, then tortures it to a slow death

Twice the insanity

Crazy in Alabama is two movies in one, and both are knockoffs

Big Cheese

Stuart 2 is no small feat: a charming sequel

Legally Bland

Reese Witherspoon's talents are wasted in the muddy, unoriginal Legally Blonde

Raging Waters

Inspired by Patty Hearst, Cecil B. Demented rails against the dying of the cinema

Reaching new Vistas

Hasta la you know what, baby

Leaving Mike Figgis

The director shoots but doesn't score with self-indulgent Loss of Sexual Innocence