I don't usually like gangsta movies, but boyz in the hood isn't really, and I liked it a lot. It came out about when... um--was it Grand Canyon? What was the movie that Steve Martin and Kevin Kline, and everyone catalogued yuppie fears and worries and pretended to present some sort of universal insight? Anyway, that one.

   By contrast Boyz in The Hood seemed a little flawed in the opposite way, by fitting a big picture in too small a frame. It's a good movie about the world.

I thought Sixth Sense was pretty darn good. Then The Others came too quick on it's heels, spoiled the twist for me.

I liked Flirting as a coming of age movie. The jazz class at the all girl school was lovely. I remember seeing a movie called Hadley's Revolt, maybe even made for t.v., about a young wrestler who eventually quits, which had some fine touches of acting, and was oddly inspiring. About quiting. What does that say about me.

   Drumroll. I don't care much for Citizen Kane. The Rosebud thing tends to make me giggle.