One Sentence Movie Reviews


James Lo, Chavez
Get Shorty - With this firm, self-reference joins irony on the list of dramatic devices that intellectual ladder-climbers find fashionable.

Scott Anthony Masciarelli, Chavez
Get Shorty - Why didn't they credit Aunt Penny?

Russ Waterhouse
The Island of Dr. Moreau - Far more engagin than the book, if only because Brando's encroaching senility turns this almost-serious film into the comic flipside of Apocalypse Now.

Carrie McLaren
Jerry McGuire - Eric Stoltz was hot!

Ira Kaplan, Yo La Tengo
Deliverance - Ronny Cox loses his life, Ned Beatty loses his manhood, Burt Reynolds loses his leg, and Jon Voight loses his wallet.... Dusty and Sweets McGee -- American hot spoon.... Big Bully - Arnold + Moranis = Touchdown

Helen Rush
The People Vs. Larry Flynt - I believe the immortal words of Roseanne Barr are appropriate when describing this film: "We're America's worst nightmare: white trash with money."

Kris Gillespie
Milos Forman's Flynt
is fine but instead you should
rent Amadeus.

Frank Longo
A Touch of Evil - The cinematic equivalent to Crypt Records, underage sex, drinking in public, and your girlfriend's roommate; you'll probably need a shower when you're through ... and I'm not kidding.

Clint Teakeda, Bardo Pond
Withnail and I - British-rubbing-alcohol-drinking- good-time-buddy flick.... Fingers - This movie featuring Tia Farrow and Jim Brown stars Harvey "the Henthmen" Keitell who breaks fingers and plays piano with the best of them.

Michael Gibbons, Bardo Pond
Dead Man - This visionary Jim Jarmusch film subverts the Hollywood Old West tried-and-true-white-man-slash red-man juxtaposition with resonating images of Gibby and Iggy kicking Oscar's ass.