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Fatal Detraction

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

By Peter Rainer
Oct 15, 1998

Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita still has the power to scare off people. Proof is the book's new movie adaptation, directed by Adrian Lyne and scripted by Stephen Schiff and starring Jeremy Irons as the passionate pedophile Humbert Humbert, a man entranced by nymphets. Completed more than two years ago, the movie...
Mission: Unfilmable

Beloved makes an awkward transition from the page to the screen

By Peter Rainer
Oct 15, 1998

The Jonathan Demme-directed Beloved runs nearly three hours, and it's a long slog. This adaptation of the 1987 Toni Morrison novel bursts with ambition. On one hand, it tries to get inside the fevers of the African-American slave experience, but it also wants to be an epic family saga and...
Screen Tests

Usual suspects, small wonders, and the new Bertolucci at the Montreal and Toronto film fests

By Peter Rainer
Oct 8, 1998

The Montreal World Film Festival ran for 10 days through Labor Day, and the Toronto Film Festival picked up a few days later and carried on for another 10. Twin colossi of the Great White North, they each unspooled some 300 movies, and, as in the past three years, I...
Workers' Compensation

Antz: A way underground film with a cast of millions!

By Peter Rainer
Oct 1, 1998

The ants in Antz show a lot of personality. The film is the best example yet of how a fully animated computer-generated feature can delineate facial movement. Toy Story (1995), the first such feature to be released, was brasher and more child-friendly, but Antz is more of a--how shall I...
Her Mother's Keeper

Weepy One True Thing rings false--and overly familiar

By Peter Rainer
Sep 17, 1998

One True Thing, directed by Carl Franklin, is trying to be the Terms of Endearment of the Nineties. Scripted by Karen Croner from the 1995 Anna Quindlen novel of the same name, One True Thing pushes the same high-gloss homilies about making peace with your family, and it caps everything...

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