Another Day in Paradise 1998

Susan Stark, Detroit News: Woods creates another of his patented high-voltage characters. Read more

Janet Maslin, New York Times: [Clark's] second, more benign film delivers what his first promised: bad times with a wicked way of looking good. Read more

Kevin Thomas, Los Angeles Times: As contradictory as it is energetic, the film takes as many risks as its people do and as a result strikes a highly contemporary nerve. Read more

Jeff Millar, Houston Chronicle: A well-executed scene can be followed by another where Clark shows no sense of the tone of which he'd just been in such tight control. Read more

Paul Tatara, CNN.com: This is not a movie for everyone, and I'm not certain that I even want to recommend it with strong reservations. Read more

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Rick Groen, Globe and Mail: Ho-hum. Read more

Manohla Dargis, L.A. Weekly: A routine genre film. Read more

Andrew Sarris, New York Observer: Read more

James Berardinelli, ReelViews: It aims to be powerful and gritty, but merely succeeds in being dreary and grungy. Read more

Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times: There's not much new here, but then there's so rarely something new at the movies that we're sometimes grateful to see the familiar done well. Read more

Craig Seligman, Salon.com: Another Day in Paradise doesn't have the necessary expansiveness or the depth of theme to qualify as a great movie or even a near-great movie, but in its trashy, pessimistic way, it's just about perfect. Read more

Jeff Strickler, Minneapolis Star Tribune: It's hard for Another Day in Paradise to bring anything new to the well-worn road traveled by thugs on the run. But director Larry Clark and an energetic cast keep things jumping in this morality tale about the down and dirty. Read more

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J. Hoberman, Village Voice: Slackly directed and badly acted. Read more