Arliss Howard

This isn't a big surprise, but it is a disappointment. AMC won't be renewing "Rubicon," the dense, detailed espionage drama....

In its third episode Sunday night on AMC, “Rubicon� slowly moved the story forward with sporadic bursts of new information about what David Hadas is trying to tell Will Travers from the grave. There also was a hint of the......

"Big Bad Love" is a calculated risk that succeeds in evoking what it means to be a fiction writer as few films have. Shot through with beauty, pain and humor, this complex and intimate film is drawn from the short story collection of the same name by...

Friday December 3, 1999      The title of the powerful "A Map of the World" refers to a drawing a child makes to try to grasp where her dying mother might be going. Now as an adult, Sigourney Weaver's Alice Goodwin finds herself heading into uncharted...

Friday December 3, 1999      Handsomely mounted, literate, emotionally sophisticated, "The End of the Affair" has everything a period romance should have, including a score by Michael Nyman and passionate performances by stars Ralph Fiennes and...

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-...

"Birth" might be more accurately called "Rebirth." Lit up by an incandescent Nicole Kidman performance, this adventurous film, daring and frustrating by turns, uses cinematic skill to raise provocative questions about love, belief, memory and...

Friday May 23, 1997      "Jurassic Park," the biggest worldwide box-office hit of all time, proves to be impossible to top or equal. Its sequel, "The Lost World: Jurassic Park," has stupendous production values and special effects and works best as a...

Friday January 31, 1997      There's a sentimental streak a mile wide in Scott Silver's "johns," but it's nonetheless engaging and poignant because David Arquette and Lukas Haas bring such vulnerability and likability to the Santa Monica Boulevard...