Reviews of the latest films.

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• Mails of the Species An online romance, plus an Irish criminal and Moses.
  David Edelstein Dec. 19, 1998
  
• Pegasus' Mane 
  David Edelstein Dec. 13, 1998
  
• Snowballs in Hell 
  David Edelstein Dec. 6, 1998
  
• Eyes on the Prize They could be contenders. Or could they?
  David Edelstein Nov. 21, 1998
  
• Warrior Queens The unsexed, the oversexed, and the long since past sex.
  David Edelstein Nov. 15, 1998
  
• White and Dark The scary power of skinhead art.
  David Edelstein Nov. 1, 1998
  
• Bleak Houses Happiness doesn't have much to spare. The Celebration isn't.
  David Edelstein Oct. 18, 1998
  
• La Dolce Vita Woody Allen and some rootless professional assassins discover the meaninglessness of it all.
  David Edelstein Oct. 10, 1998
  
• False Notes One True Thing isn't.
  David Edelstein Sept. 20, 1998
  
• Place Your Bets A gambling film that plays it safe; a re-release that doesn't.
  David Edelstein Sept. 13, 1998
  
• Dirty Laundry There are times when it really shouldn't be aired.
  David Edelstein Aug. 21, 1998
  
• Moral Characters The ethical and the numerical.
  David Edelstein Aug. 16, 1998
  
• Trigonometry De Palma's movies are like great math: They're all about how you arrive at the solution.
  David Edelstein Aug. 9, 1998
  
• Apocalypse Then The viscera of war.
  David Edelstein July 24, 1998
  
• When Gross Stuff Happens to Good People The bottom of the barrel genius of the Farrelly brothers.
  David Edelstein July 18, 1998
  
• The End of the World as We Know It? No problem. Bruce Willis has his sneer handy.
  David Edelstein July 2, 1998
  
• Close Encounters of the Blurred Kind Mulder and Scully's fuzzy logic.
  David Edelstein June 20, 1998
  
• Peep Show Are you Big Brother?
  David Edelstein June 7, 1998
  
• Big and Stupid This Godzilla is too dumb to survive.
  David Edelstein May 22, 1998
  
• Phat Head Warren Beatty: White Negro, martyr.
  David Edelstein May 17, 1998
  
• He Got Balls Spike Lee and the mythopoetics of hoops.
  David Edelstein May 3, 1998
  
• Days of Whine and Neuroses Slimy guys, no-nonsense women.
  David Edelstein April 26, 1998
  
• Pillow Talk Nicholas Hytner's fluffy Object of My Affection.
  David Edelstein April 19, 1998
  
• Pig Heaven David Edelstein on The Butcher Boy, The Spanish Prisoner, and Lost in Space.
  David Edelstein April 5, 1998
  
• Choose Life Primary Colors is a pale imitation of our great national soap opera.
  David Edelstein March 22, 1998
  
• Hams in Winter DiCaprio, Newman, Hurt, et al.
  David Edelstein March 15, 1998
  
• Bogus Nights The immorality of indie film.
  Alex Ross March 8, 1998
  
• Floaters Virginia Woolf's characters drift dreamily onto film.
  David Edelstein Feb. 22, 1998
  
• Dark and Stormy Nights Robert Altman's meta-noir; Alfonso Cuarón's neo-Dickens; Antoine Fuqua's not-Woo.
  David Edelstein Feb. 8, 1998
  
• Beyond Good and Evil Saintly sinning in Robert Duvall's The Apostle.
  David Edelstein Jan. 25, 1998
  
• Human, All Too Human In praise of Ingrid Bergman.
  Sarah Kerr Jan. 14, 1998