Reviews of the latest films.

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• Enfants de la Patrie In La Cérémonie, Claude Chabrol revamps The Maids.
  Dave Kehr Dec. 18, 1996
  
• Cruise Missal In Jerry Maguire, Tom Cruise is finally redeemed.
  Sarah Kerr Dec. 12, 1996
  
• Whine, Women, and Song Woody Allen's musical.
  David Greenberg Dec. 4, 1996
  
• Miller's Crossing The Crucible is not great drama, but it is stirring melodrama.
  David Edelstein Nov. 27, 1996
  
• Sex and Longing Breaking the Waves and The English Patient.
  Sarah Kerr Nov. 12, 1996
  
• Leonardo and Juliet Hollywood's sultriest young actor, Shakespeare's steamiest romance.
  Alex Ross Nov. 6, 1996
  
• Accidental Origins Mike Leigh's SecretsandLies.
  Sarah Kerr Sept. 24, 1996
  
• Dust to Dust Walter Hill's browned-out Westerns.
  David Edelstein Sept. 17, 1996
  
• Island of Lost Auteurs What the hell happened to John Frankenheimer?
  Alex Ross Sept. 10, 1996
  
• Vice Squad Robert Altman busts human nature--again.
  Sarah Kerr Aug. 20, 1996
  
• Love Belabored An Emma with shtick.
  Sarah Kerr Aug. 13, 1996
  
• Live and Let Die No, Trainspotting doesn't glamorize the junkie life. It just makes it sound reasonable.
  Michael Wood July 23, 1996
  
• Harriet Defied What have they done to every girl's favorite misfit?
  Ann Hulbert July 16, 1996
  
• Mother Ship The familiar aliens of Independence Day.
  Judith Shulevitz July 3, 1996