Atom Egoyan

Friday November 19, 1999      With "Felicia's Journey," Canada's masterful and ever-venturesome Atom Egoyan continues to explore the ways in which people are damaged by terrible loss and loneliness and how they strive to overcome them.      This...

Friday April 20, 2001      It's not surprising to read that Chinese director Wang Xiao-shuai has won the admiration of such idiosyncratic filmmakers as Quentin Tarantino and Atom Egoyan. A member of the country's so-called sixth generation of...

"Dust" is a bust, a big bad movie of the scope, ambition and bravura that could be made only by a talented filmmaker run amok. Macedonian-born, New York-based Milcho Manchevski, whose first film was the elegiac 1994 "Before the Rain," attempts a Middle...

Monday September 2, 1996      "The Stupids" lives up to its title all too faithfully. When the filmmakers "put the dumb back into the stupid," as the film's ads say, they forgot to add "the humor."      It's so lifeless, so mechanical--despite a game...

Friday March 21, 1997      A few years ago a handwritten sign was spotted outside a theater in one of Manhattan's more dismal neighborhoods. "Now!" it proclaimed, "The First Bondage Film With a Believable Story Line!" History does not tell us whether the...

Friday March 14, 1997      "Margaret's Museum" is one of those gratifying, intimate films in which all elements seem to mesh perfectly. A love story set against a deepening drama of social protest, it has a distinctive psychological twist to which its...

Friday June 6, 1997      "Bliss" is an earnest yet half-baked message movie about how the source of sexual dysfunction in marriage can be caused by a repressed memory of childhood incest. That this is obviously a very serious, tricky subject doesn't...

Friday March 3, 1995      With "Exotica," whose title refers to a Toronto nightclub, Canada's venturesome Atom Egoyan has made one of his most accessible films to date, a haunting and complex fable of loss and desire with wide implications. An immense...