Reviews of the latest films.

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• Holding Their Fire Tarantino's charmingly chatty thriller; Scorsese's pleasantly boring biopic.
  David Edelstein Dec. 26, 1997
  
• The Love Boat James Cameron's Titanic.
  David Edelstein Dec. 21, 1997
  
• In the Belly of the Beast Woody Allen's alter ego; Steven Spielberg's slave ship.
  David Edelstein Dec. 14, 1997
  
• As Slime Goes By A mucousy pit of Alien viscera.
  David Edelstein Nov. 28, 1997
  
• Brain Teasers Atom Egoyan and Clint Eastwood indulge a taste for ambiguity.
  Sarah Kerr Nov. 23, 1997
  
• Drunk on His Own Jazz Mike Figgis' One Night Stand.
  David Edelstein Nov. 16, 1997
  
• The James Perplex It shouldn't be so hard to film his books.
  Alex Ross Nov. 9, 1997
  
• Artless Heiress Jennifer Jason Leigh in Agnieszka Holland's Washington Square.
  David Edelstein Oct. 18, 1997
  
• The Happy Pornographers Boogie Nights goes forth and sins cheerfully.
  Sarah Kerr Oct. 11, 1997
  
• All in the Family The Ice Storm, The Myth of Fingerprints, A Thousand Acres.
  David Edelstein Oct. 1, 1997
  
• Hush, Hush, Sweet City L.A. Confidential, a throwback to the era of real policiers.
  David Edelstein Sept. 21, 1997
  
• The Decline of Western Masculinity The Full Monty, Hoodlum, and She's So Lovely.
  David Edelstein Aug. 30, 1997
  
• One Woman's War Demi Moore in G.I. Jane.
  Sarah Kerr Aug. 23, 1997
  
• In the Company of Men Sylvester Stallone plays with the big boys.
  David Edelstein Aug. 16, 1997
  
• What Boys and Girls Are Made Of Career Girls and In the Company of Men.
  David Edelstein Aug. 9, 1997
  
• Presumed President Should Harrison Ford really be the leader of the free world?
  Sarah Kerr July 31, 1997
  
• After Dark, My Sweet The rankest urges emerge in This World, Then the Fireworks.
  David Edelstein July 19, 1997
  
• Fetal Attraction Will Robert Zemeckis never grow up?
  Sarah Kerr July 12, 1997
  
• About Face Of masks and men in Face/Off and Men in Black.
  David Edelstein June 28, 1997
  
• The Schumacher Hypothesis Can the director of Batman & Robin be said to have an oeuvre?
  Alex Ross June 21, 1997
  
• Jailbirds Con Air marks Nicolas Cage's flight from integrity.
  David Edelstein June 7, 1997
  
• Museum of Jurassic Technology Glitzy dinosaurs. Not much else.
  David Edelstein May 25, 1997
  
• A Movable Feast Stephen Frears adapts Roddy Doyle's The Van.
  Luc Sante May 17, 1997
  
• Unmitigated Gaul The Fifth Element and Irma Vep.
  David Edelstein May 10, 1997
  
• My Panel Discussion With Andre The return of Wallace Shawn.
  Sarah Kerr May 3, 1997
  
• Canned Heat Volcano has all the clichés except the one that matters.
  David Plotz April 27, 1997
  
• Dear John How Grosse Pointe Blank could have been better.
  Sarah Kerr April 24, 1997
  
• Industrious Thuggery Three run-of-the-mill action films, one brilliantly crafted film noir.
  David Edelstein April 9, 1997
  
• Amor Prohibido Selena's impossible crossover dreams.
  Sarah Kerr March 27, 1997
  
• Sex Drive The automotive eroticism of Crash.
  Luc Sante March 20, 1997
  
• Howard's End Fartman on the big screen.
  David Edelstein March 12, 1997
  
• Downsizing the Mob DonnieBrasco's new Mafia realism.
  David Edelstein March 5, 1997
  
• Road Kill David Lynch in decay.
  David Edelstein Feb. 26, 1997
  
• A Holy Whore The fecund Rainer Werner Fassbinder.
  Luc Sante Feb. 19, 1997
  
• Pop Technology How Star Wars changed the world.
  Louis Menand Feb. 12, 1997
  
• Whatever subUrbia rehashes the clichés of youth.
  Sarah Kerr Feb. 6, 1997
  
• Stuffed Animals Fierce Creatures is way too cute.
  David Edelstein Jan. 30, 1997
  
• Jackie Be Nimble What makes this small, deferential action hero so great?
  David Edelstein Jan. 15, 1997
  
• Sons and Lovers Albert Brooks' creepily Oedipal Mother.
  David Edelstein Jan. 9, 1997
  
• Stayin' Alive Like a lot of music written in the 1970s, Evita pays tribute to the act of survival. Unsurprisingly, it hasn't survived.
  Louis Menand Jan. 2, 1997
  
• Leave It to Beaver The People vs. Larry Flynt is gleefully, unapologetically obscene.
  David Edelstein Jan. 1, 1997