Siskel & Ebert's Reviews from 1996

Two criminals and their hostages unknowingly seek temporary refuge in a truck stop populated by vampires, with chaotic results.

When the courts fail to keep behind bars the man who raped and murdered her daughter, a woman seeks her own form of justice.

In a future world devastated by disease, a convict is sent back in time to gather information about the man-made virus that wiped out most of the human population on the planet.

A couple steals a Matisse painting on contract, and manage to evade the police. The sale takes place four days later on an island, but things don't go as planned.

A parody of several U.S. films about being in the 'Hood', for instance Boyz n the Hood (1991), South Central (1992), Menace II Society (1993), Higher Learning (1995) and Juice (1992).

A military commander stationed off planet during an interplanetary war travels through the devastated landscape to negotiate a peace treaty, but discovers that the primitive robots they built to kill enemy combatants have gained sentience.

The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.

Follows a young career girl who is swept off her feet by a shy florist who fell in love with her after one glimpse through a shadowy window.

A narrator tells the story of his childhood years in a tightly knit Afro-American community in the deep south under racial segregation.

In the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.

A juror in a Mafia trial is forced to convince the other jurors to vote not guilty by an obsessive mob enforcer.

An outcast Husky risks his life with other sled dogs to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.

Teenage boys discover discipline and camaraderie on an ill-fated sailing voyage.

A look into the many lives of Christa Päffgen, otherwise known as Nico; from cutie German mädchen to the first of the supermodels, to glamorous diva of the Velvet Underground, to cult item, junkie and hag. Many faces for the same woman, whom, you realize, just couldn't bring herself to care enough to live.

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

Terrorists steal nuclear warheads from the U.S. military but don't count on a pilot and park ranger spoiling their plans.

A gubernatorial candidate hires a wormy special assistant whose only job is to make sure the candidate's well-meaning but incompetent brother doesn't ruin the election.

A piano player at a crossroads in his life returns home to his friends and their own problems with life and love.

A group of theatre actors plays "Hamlet" in a provincial village, faced with their own temptations, disappointments, and joys.

A Dutch matron establishes and, for several generations, oversees a close-knit, matriarchal community where feminism and liberalism thrive.

The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.

A dramatization of the rivalry between David Letterman and Jay Leno over which of them would succeed Johnny Carson as the host of "The Tonight Show".

After his grandmother's house is repossessed by the IRS, a bad tempered hockey player takes his talents to golf to earn the big bucks and get his grandmothers house back.

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

A young man visiting and helping his uncle in New York City finds himself forced to fight a street gang and the mob with his martial art skills.