This Boy’s Life (1993)

This Boy’s Life (1993)

[6] This film, along with What's Eating Gilbert Grape, both released the same year, made young Leonardo DiCaprio a star. DiCaprio holds his own against the formidable Robert DeNiro, here playing an abusive step-father. The performances are good, but the…
The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai (1984)

The Adventures of Buckaroo Bonzai (1984)

[2] This movie is just too silly and disjointed for me. I hate it and I always have. It's a boring, cheap, un-inventive waste of time and talent. I truly don't get its appeal. The plot is beyond me, and…
Daniel (1983)

Daniel (1983)

[6] Sidney Lumet directs this fictionalized account of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, a married couple who were accused of being Soviet spies and executed in the midst of 1950s' McCarthyism hysteria. Lumet cuts back and forth in time throughout the…