Peter Weller

Friday July 4, 1997      In the period piece "End of Summer," Jacqueline Bisset is radiant as a rich, aristocratic turn-of-the-century spinster who unexpectedly has a second chance at love. The hourglass silhouette, the long skirts, the leg o' mutton...

Friday December 3, 1999      In recent years, Italy's grand master, Michelangelo Antonioni, has been largely silenced by a 1985 stroke that has left his speech impaired but from which he otherwise recovered. In 1995, he returned to feature filmmaking...

In "ivansxtc," Danny Huston is so dazzling as a charismatic, high-living Hollywood agent suddenly confronted with mortality at the moment of his greatest success that it makes the film seem all the more disappointing. Director Bernard Rose and co-writer...

Friday December 3, 1999      "Holy Smoke," a high-risk, darkly comic triumph, is the most unabashedly outrageous movie Jane Campion has made since her debut, "Sweetie," a decade ago. Like that film's heroine "Holy Smoke's" Ruth is at intense odds with...

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-...

Here's casting the first of many stones: Brian Helgeland's "The Order" suffers from a multitude of sins. A clammy religious thriller about redemption and the stain of hubris, the story traces what happens when a dissident young priest graced with brooding...

Friday January 26, 1996      The imagination of the late science-fiction writer Philip K. Dick blossomed at a time when paranoia about the atom bomb, encroaching communists and space invaders--sometimes communist space invaders with the bomb--was at...

Friday October 27, 1995      Like the tortoise in Aesop's celebrated fable, Woody Allen has used not flash but persistence to become one of the most prolific of active American filmmakers. "Mighty Aphrodite" is his 25th feature as a writer-director in an...