*** “La Femme Nikita,” opening today at the Charles, is a dizzying, dark fairy tale for our age: It’s Cinderella with guns. But instead of marrying the prince, our heroine merely serves him by ...
La Femme Nikita is the first French flick I’ve reviewed since Emmanuelle V because everyone kept writing in to me to tell me it was a drive-in movie with subtitles. I tried to tell these people that ...
In Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita, the ballet-trained actress Anne Parillaud does the impossible. She makes a remorseless, junked-out cop killer sympathetic. Parillaud makes the twig-like Nikita ...
Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita is getting a 4K UDH Blu-ray release on June 11. This summer, the classic action thriller will be available to watch in 4K resolution with Dolby Vision, with the movie ...
To start out, we have to define just which 'Nikita' we're talking about here: This is not the Blu-Ray releases of the '96 American television series of the same name or even a re-release of the ...
*** La Femme Nikita (Vidmark, 115 minutes, R, $89.95): Henry Higgins would have had his hands full with Nikita, a beautiful but extremely ill-man- nered young woman in modern-day Paris. Ill-mannered ...
Edward Douglas fell into writing about movies later in life, because he was spending much of his earlier years working in the recording studio with various bands and artists. He's lived in New York ...
“La Femme Nikita” is a curious, expertly manipulative film that has you hoping, in the beginning, that the lead character will be erased. When the film ends, you find yourself hoping she will walk off ...
Nikita is a cold, cunning killing machine, but she’s a nice person. Heroines in TV series have to be, bottom line, good people. It’s OK to torture, maim and kill as long as your heart is in the right ...
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