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...Richard Corliss...
...administration, and snazzed up by a trio of old-pro screenwriters -- Nicholas Pileggi, Paul Schrader, Bo Goldman -- and because it was shot in Gotham?s City Hall with Mayor Rudolph Giuliani?s blessing, the movie has a burly verisimilitude. "After a few reels, though, things get goofy," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "Suddenly every room is preposterously dark; the most powerful men in town can?t afford decent light bulbs. Pacino?s performance turns crazily manic: when he gives an oration for a dead child, his wild hand gestures read like sign language for the myopic." Nostalgia is the chief feature of "City Hall...
...Foreign Language Oscar. In response, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences said it would not allow a film to be squeezed out because of politics, and The White Balloon remains eligible. All of this political maneuvering distracts from what is a wonderful movie, says TIME's Richard Corliss. "This sly comedy is wonderfully open to life?s coincidences and consequences; it shows an uncondescending interest in children even as it is alert to their gamin guile. Panahi's film deserves viewers, supporters -- perhaps even a statuette...
Reparation of sorts for decades of shabby treatment of gays by Hollywood comes in this handsome, feature-length documentary. Niftily assembled by Robert Epstein and Jeffrey Freidman, the compilation is by turns amusing and heartbreaking, says TIME's Richard Corliss. It adroitly interlaces old film clips, like a peignoired Cary Grant, declaring, in Bringing Up Baby, 'I just went gay all of a sudden!', with cogent comments by Gore Vidal, Harvey Fierstein, Quentin Crisp and others. But the final irony of the film may be that Hollywood, with its dozens of gay stars, its hundreds of gays in positions...
...Richard Corliss...