Movies

Jawbreaker and Office Space take different approaches to plot development and reach different levels of success.

Beautifully acted but grim as a funeral, Affliction is heavy on soul-searching and stingy on hope.

Get out your hankies and weep for the heart-tugging disaster Message in a Bottle.

Central Station reanimates the odd couple movie.

Even Bill Murray’s antics can’t rescue this self-important comedy.

Brian Helgeland gamely reimagines a pulp legend in Payback.

For those about to rock, Still Crazy salutes you.

John Maybury brings home the Francis Bacon in Love Is the Devil.

Hilary and Jackie deftly depicts a complex and affecting sibling rivalry.

The earnest Playing by Heart talks itself to death.

Fear + loathing + a cache of cash + America’s great white north = A Simple Plan.

Varsity Blues is penalized for unsportsmanlike moviemaking.