By Andrew Sarris 12:00am

Reese Witherspoon’s Old-Fashioned Dazzle

Andy Tennant’s Sweet Home Alabama , from a screenplay by C. Jay Cox, based on a story by Douglas J. Eboch, would be an unendurable viewing experience for this ultra-provincial New Yorker if 26-year-old Reese Witherspoon were not on hand to inject her pure fantasy character, Melanie Carmichael, with a massive infusion of old-fashioned Hollywood Read More

By Andrew Sarris 7/26/99 12:00am

Eyes Don’t Have It: Kubrick’s Turgid Finale

Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut , from the screenplay by Frederic Raphael, inspired by the novella Traumnovelle ( Dream Story ) by Arthur Schnitzler, did not live up to all its advance hoopla at the press screening I attended, but then what could, short of the Second Coming? There was no applause, but there was Read More