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Zhang Yimou's modest Chinese fable uses elegant realism to examine the underside of childhood in the Information Age.
By Andrew O'Hehir
February 11, 2000
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Salon Arts & Entertainment's critics pick their favorite movies of 1999.
December 17, 1999
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An eloquent study of Greenwich Village street vendors that's sure to become a contemporary classic of urban sociology.
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 16, 1999
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Is Jim Carrey really the best comic since Chaplin? Plus: It's urban playgrounds that produce NBA stars; does Indian school yield high-tech geniuses or drones?
Letters to the Editor
December 14, 1999
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Can the spirit of Andy Kaufman give the comic actor the courage to chart his own course?
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 7, 1999
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A passionate critic tosses a few firebombs at the New York theater.
By Andrew O'Hehir
December 3, 1999
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Will staying unmarried save your relationship? Plus: Camille Paglia sparks new "Sensation" debate; should technology change the way we have children?
Letters to the Editor
November 24, 1999
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Ang Lee's dark and sober fable might be the most interesting and least dogmatic view of the Civil War to wend its way into the multiplexes.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 24, 1999
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Atom Egoyan's follow-up to "The Sweet Hereafter" is a dank and claustrophobic thriller.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 19, 1999
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American boobs will believe practically anything. But is this news?
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 17, 1999
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An actionless thriller about a solved mystery somehow emerges as one of the best films of the year.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 5, 1999
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The winner of the 1999 Booker Prize is a bleak tale of human and animal misery in post-apartheid South Africa.
By Andrew O'Hehir
November 5, 1999
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Director Spike Jonze puts his brilliantly offbeat twist on the "15 minutes of fame" theory.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 29, 1999
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After the success of Disney's "Mulan,"
Miramax does its parent company one better.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 27, 1999
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Readers bust a gut on fat guy story; it's time to give up on baseball; sick of hearing about Harmony Korine's shockfest.
Letters to the Editor
October 22, 1999
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Joe Morgan's book argues that the national pastime is headed for a disaster. But that might not be such a bad thing.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 15, 1999
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The late-'90s crisis of masculinity has arrived in pop culture with a vengeance.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 15, 1999
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A beautifully sensitive novel looks at hippie-generation parents and the kids they weren't prepared to raise.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 11, 1999
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The stylish, almost hallucinatory war movie promotes director David O. Russell from indie grunt to Hollywood sharpshooter.
By Andrew O'Hehir
October 1, 1999
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This action thriller bets it all -- and loses.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 24, 1999
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"For Love of the Game" review strikes out; college students should learn to leave the nest; since when is George Bush an "education governor"?
Letters to the Editor
September 24, 1999
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If you're not as old as Kevin Costner's aging character at the beginning of this dreary baseball fable, you will be by the end.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 17, 1999
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Kevin Spacey keeps a biting suburban satire from eating itself alive.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 15, 1999
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Tarantino cameraman Ziad Doueiri's excellent directorial debut tracks teenagers coming of age in a sophisticated city devastated by war.
By Andrew O'Hehir
September 9, 1999
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In his follow-up to "Angela's Ashes" Frank McCourt confronts the indignities of immigrant life.
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 31, 1999