Wag the Dog movie review: art imitates life (or is it the other way around?)
Wag the Dog is satire, and its object of ridicule here is not politicians or the media but the gullible and ignorant American people….
Month: January 1998
Liar Liar (review)
You have to admire Jim Carrey. He’s the guy who somehow got *you* into trouble in math class in 7th grade by making faces at you — and now he’s making $20 million a movie for doing the same thing…
The Portrait of a Lady (review)
The Portrait of a Lady is everything costume dramas always threaten to be: boring, unsuspenseful, and too long…
Oscar and Lucinda (review)
A big box of Godiva chocolates. That’s what Oscar and Lucinda is. Sweet and delightful and rich and satisfying…
Amistad (review)
Anyone who thought that Schindler’s List was an aberration on Steven Spielberg’s part surely would reconsider that position after seeing Amistad. This is as stark and unsentimental — in other words, the most unSpielbergian — a film as I’ve seen in a long time…
A Time to Kill (review)
A Time to Kill demonstrates perfectly why John Grisham is always at the top of the bestseller lists. Never mind his awkward, stilted prose — the man tells compelling stories. And here we get his great story unhampered by bad writing…
Titanic (review)
Titanic is one of the best movies I’ve ever seen. If you haven’t seen it yet, stop reading this instant and run out to the multiplex. Titanic is simply a great film — and by *great,* I don’t mean *very good.* I mean *great* as in *epic and profound*…
Batman and Robin (review)
Friends of mine coined themselves a new word after they saw last year’s Spawn: they said it was ‘beyawful’ — ‘beyond awful’ — the worst movie they had ever seen. They have yet to see Batman and Robin…
