Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review five new movies and recommend a video. Two big thumbs up for
Once Around (1991), a very non-formulaic movie about a pushy salesman and his relationship with his wife and her family. Siskel calls it the first really good movie of the year. Two thumbs down for the murkily photographed and clumsily written
Men of Respect (1990), a mob version of Shakespeare's "Macbeth". Two thumbs down for the Vietnam action movie,
Flight of the Intruder (1991). Each critic liked different parts that the other didn't like, but neither enjoyed the movie as a whole. Two thumbs up for the rousing family adventure,
White Fang (1991), based on a Jack London novel. Siskel complains only about the way it is photographed. Two thumbs up for
Not Without My Daughter (1991). Both agree it is dramatically effective, although Ebert finds the depiction of Iranians to be racist. His thumb is up for the unusual reason that audiences should confront what they may disagree with. Ebert's "Video Pick of the Week" is
Windwalker (1980).
—J. Spurlin