David Morse

The first things you notice about identical twins Alex and Andrew Smith are the few differences that they do have. Alex is the taller one, standing about 21/2 inches above 6-foot-1 Andrew, and Alex is huskier, too, by about 15 pounds on the scale. And...

Stephen King is a writer with an eye for the grotesque, never at a loss for a strange way to make somebody die. Scott Hicks, director of "Shine" and "Snow Falling on Cedars," is a filmmaker of noticeable, at times overwhelming, gentility. They do not seem...

A film about football, redemption and the perils of intimacy among men, "The Slaughter Rule" opens in a blindingly bright snowy field in rural Montana. Roy Chutney (Ryan Gosling), a teenager out leading a horse, has come across a small doe caught on a...

Friday July 11, 1997      Whatever's Out There has always fascinated people Down Here, especially movie people. But these days, instead of watching the skies (as those 1950s films encouraged everyone to do), people are listening to them. "Contact"...

Wednesday July 29, 1998      The less you think about "The Negotiator," the better off you are. It's a measure of how pulsating and energetic a visual style director F. Gary Gray has, and how vividly actors Samuel L. Jackson and Kevin Spacey come...

Friday October 15, 1999      Cedric Kahn's relentless "L'Ennui" is such a rigorous exploration of sexual obsession that it proves to be a most demanding film. Virtually devoid of eroticism and sensuality, it depicts with the utmost realism a 17-year-...

Friday December 10, 1999      The face of Hollywood today is the face of power. Director's power. The power of special effects. Together, they can create wonders, but if unchecked they can also lead to things that are not so wonderful, things that are...

Friday October 22, 1999      "Crazy in Alabama" gives you two movies for the price of one, but it's no bargain.      One picture is about a boy, Peejoe (Lucas Black), who is 12 years old and living in rural Alabama in the summer of 1965, when the...

Friday October 6, 2000      Lars von Trier's "Dancer in the Dark," that most morose of musicals, is so exasperating in its contradictions, so frustrating in its fakery, so deeply irritating in its pretensions, it's frankly hard to know where to begin...

Friday December 8, 2000      It may be unfair, but it's inevitable that "Proof of Life" is going to be seen, at least in the short run, through the lens of the off-screen romance that developed on location between co-stars Meg Ryan and Russell Crowe. The...

Hospitals, morgues, courtrooms and nostalgia - that's where you'll again find most of the action in the new television season. • • • Cops and hospitals. Hospitals and cops. It's a topical cul-de-sac on TV, where the highest-rated shows in recent...

Friday December 18, 1998      Eric Lea's "George B." is a nice little movie that's not developed sufficiently enough to work as well as it could despite persuasive performances in its three central roles.      With his boyishly open countenance, David...