Marg Helgenberger

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 April 14, 2000      "Where the Money Is" takes its title from a famous reply legendary thief Willie Sutton gave when he was asked why he robbed banks. However, crooks would be ill-advised to stick up the box offices at theaters where this tepid...

Friday April 7, 2000      "Soft Fruit" asks us to spend 101 minutes with people most of us wouldtake pains to avoid in real life.      The difference between this film, a first feature for writer-director Christina Andreef, and works by her executive...

Friday April 28, 2000      For Kevin Spacey, "The Big Kahuna" is far from an ideal commercial follow-up to "American Beauty" in reaffirming his new star status. It's a small picture, its stage roots all too evident, and the role Spacey plays is...

Wednesday April 19, 2000      Salvador Carrasco's "The Other Conquest," or "La Otra Conquista," is a boldly imaginative and enthralling evocation of the bloody aftermath of the 1521 Spanish conquest of Mexico that has become the highest-grossing drama...

It is no longer a secret that for big Hollywood nights like the Emmy Awards, designers provide free gowns and tuxedos to deserving stars (those likely to be on camera or in the path of photographers). Now that a number of the recipients of freebie duds...

"In Good Company" sounds like what it is: a recipe for how we'd all like to end the year. It's a major studio comedy that's all the things a major studio comedy usually is not, including genial, generous-spirited and unmistakably entertaining. It's not...

3½ stars (out of 4) The most touted film of last year was a buddy flick that featured emotionally adrift men in all their shame and glory. Liberating its characters from the confines of everyday humdrum, "Sideways" let loose two middle-aged guys in...

Home Box Office separated itself from the pack and raced away with the most nominations by far, including four out of 10 best-series contenders, as candidates for the 55th annual nighttime Emmy Awards were unveiled Thursday. Coupled with its longtime...

Good zombie fun, the remake of George A. Romero's "Dawn of the Dead" is the best proof in ages that cannibalizing old material sometimes works fiendishly well. The story opens with a hush in a Milwaukee hospital as an emergency-room nurse (Sarah Polley)...

Friday July 7, 1995      "Species" is a pretty good Boo! movie. It's not the kind of sci-fi film that's going to give Stanley Kubrick any sleepless nights, and it may not give the rest of us much sleeplessness either. Its primary purpose in life is to...