By: Marc Weidenbaum

“What does this mean?” “It means heat.”

By: Dan Piepenbring

The steering wheel as an instrument of vengeance.

By: Ramona Lyons

We are the slaves, the prey, easily beaten at our own game.

By: Matthew Sharpe

A quest to answer a seemingly answered question.

By: David Levine

“It only looks like conspiracy if you’re a detective.”

By: Gordon Dahlquist

For high shamelessness, MARATHON MAN is hard to top.

By: Sherri Wasserman

You can’t ever really escape New York, not if you truly love it.

By: Mark Kingwell

A heady mixture of adventure and absolute tosh.

By: Tom Nealon

It’s Rabelais, but with Eastwood as Gargantua, and an orangutan as Pantugruel.

By: Heather Kapplow

He falls down and he gets up. Falls down, gets up.

By: Jonathan Lethem

A film about obsessiveness, STRAIGHT TIME breeds it.

By: Peter Doyle

Expect zero in the way of male heroics.

By: Mandy Keifetz

You could laugh your head off at the ultra-violence.

By: Adam McGovern

“Made not to adrenalize but mesmerize.”

By: Devin McKinney

Unrelenting in its push, unsparing with its decibels.