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Bret Fetzer

Hot for teacher - August 18, 1999
Veteran actress Helen Mirren shows the kids how it's done.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Brokedown premise - August 11, 1999
In which some charming characters are undone by a flawed script.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Eyes bored shut - July 21, 1999
Despite flashes of brilliance, Kubrick's swan song is tedious and overlong.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Holed on - July 14, 1999
You'll never figure it out, but you'll unaccountably like it.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Not now, girls - July 7, 1999
Colette Burson on the indignities of censorship.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Dear David - June 30, 1999
An open letter to David Foster Wallace.
Books By Bret Fetzer
Kissing off - June 30, 1999
Casting the end of the millennium as a love story.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Walk on the Wilde side - June 23, 1999
Contemporary events and an imaginative director revive a classic play.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Aping man - June 16, 1999
A Disney cartoon Tarzan with more emotional life than his human predecessors.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Austin's Power Failure - June 9, 1999
An impotent Powers delivers a flaccid film.
Film By Bret Fetzer
I want you (to stop making movies like this) - June 2, 1999
Implausible characters move moodily through action-less film to pointless conclusion.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Tales from the underside of SIFF - May 12, 1999
The view from the boiler room.
Film By Bret Fetzer
SIFFting - May 5, 1999
Assessing in advance the biggest and best SIFF to date
News By Bret Fetzer
History lesson - May 5, 1999
Alexander Payne shows Hollywood how comedy was done when it was done right
Film By Bret Fetzer
Boobs - April 28, 1999
When the most noticeable ones aren't the ones on Vicki Lewis, you know your film's in trouble.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Interview with an angel - April 21, 1999
A conversation with Elodie Bouchez of 'Dreamlife.'
Film By Bret Fetzer
Babes Off Broadway - April 7, 1999
Robert Altman serves up a meringue of a movie.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Laughgasm track - April 7, 1999
Is the world finally catching up to Annie Sprinkle?
Arts By Bret Fetzer
What's up, Doc? - March 31, 1999
Shohei Imamura's latest is a dizzying, twisted ride.
Film By Bret Fetzer
24-hour man - March 24, 1999
Attaining the glories of TV stardom.
Film By Bret Fetzer
The Exceptional norm - March 17, 1999
The secret rules governing why the Oscars always go to the blandest movies.
Film By Bret Fetzer
200 butts - February 24, 1999
Watching this movie is something like staring at a stuffed ashtray the morning after a bad party.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Hold the cheese - February 24, 1999
All the warning signs are there—but thankfully, the cheap and cheesy sentiments never arrive.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Homage to Haskell - February 10, 1999
The cinematographer as auteur.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Reel life - February 3, 1999
An unvarnished—and unpretentious—look at lives of quiet desperation.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Gushmore - February 3, 1999
In which our critic is entirely seduced by Wes Anderson's new offering.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Tired & tireder - January 27, 1999
These cartoons are even worse than Itchy & Scratchy.
Film By Bret Fetzer
Theory of Blight - January 20, 1999
Stop Kenneth Branagh before he films again!
Film By Bret Fetzer
Herding clichés - January 20, 1999
All the elements of a cowboy classic—except for plot, character, and story.
Film By Bret Fetzer