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In place of Laclos's 18th century decadents, Cruel Intentions offers us a modern prep-school Lothario (Ryan Phillippe, who looks a little like Leonardo DiCaprio on mean pills) and his half-sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar, deploying her TV vampire-slaying smarts in a lesser cause). But what they do...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Mean Pills | 3/15/1999 | See Source »

The Padovics' arrival raises the convent's current population to six, a population large enough for a love triangle, or, in this film, a love square. The Guardian (the convent's general overseer), Baltar, falls in love with Helene and tries to set up the professor with the librarian, Piedade...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 'The Convent' Is Mmm-Mmm Goethe! | 5/6/1996 | See Source »

Certainly the plot of "The Marriage of Figaro" requires a tongue-in-cheek approach; on paper, it is the kind of convoluted intrigue that gives opera a bad name. Figaro (Brian Saccente), valet to the Count Almaviva (Josh Benaim), is about to marry his sweetheart Susanna (Sarita Cannon), but the...

Author: By Adam Kirsch, | Title: Dunster Triumphs in Marriage of Figaro | 2/15/1996 | See Source »

In essence, Kids is a chase movie about Telly (Leo Fitzpatrick), a sexual specialist: he likes to make it only with virgins. Presumably, this heterosexual chicken hawk is thus spared from contracting any social disease. But Jennie (Chloe Sevigny), who has been only with Telly, tests HIV positive. Which means...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: FESTIVAL OF LOST CHILDREN | 6/5/1995 | See Source »

There are no crescendos in The Last Picture Show, adapted (as was Hud) from a novel by Larry McMurtry. The film is, essentially, a two-hour countdown to maturity. A couple of high school football players, Sonny (Timothy Bottoms) and Duane (Jeff Bridges), carom slowly toward responsibility in Anarene. There...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Festival Prize | 10/11/1971 | See Source »

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