Richard Price

It's late, in a rough part of town, and a bedraggled blond shuffles down streets that positively shimmer with menace. The woman is oblivious, possibly on drugs, as she trudges listlessly past steaming grates, trailing lights, spooked cats, police...

Friday June 16, 2000      "Do you know my name?" Samuel L. Jackson's detective John Shaft asks people every chance he gets. "What's my name?" he insists, or "Remember me?" As if anyone could forget.      Though it came out nearly 30 years ago, the...

The numbers finally don't add up on "Ransom." A persuasive thriller for most of its length, it stumbles in its attempt to become an upscale version of "Death Wish" and other vigilante dramas and ends up derailing with a soft thud.      The story of the...

Wednesday September 13, 1995      Playing under the opening credits, a series of stark images sets the mood for "Clockers," the disturbing movie Spike Lee has made from Richard Price's best-selling novel. These careful re-creations of crime scene...

Friday April 21, 1995      The dark, twisty kingdom of film noir, a shadow world that leaks fatalism, pessimism and romantic despair, is the drug of choice for today's directors. Hardly a month passes without one filmmaker or another attempting a modern-...