Critics' Corner
Desson Howe - Weekend section, "It’s all punch lines and sight gags."

Rita Kempley - Style section, "Witty and stylishly offbeat sci-fi comedy."

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This film won an Oscar for Best Makeup in 1997.


'Men in Black'

Scene from this movie The United States allows 1,500 legal aliens to live among us, mostly in New York. Of course, the government doesn't tell us they're here. These creatures look just like us, and their activities are constantly monitored by a team of crack covert operatives from an unofficial branch of the Immigration and Naturalization Service known as the Men in Black, or MiB. The mysterious G-men track down undesirable illegals and send them packing.

Agent K (Tommy Lee Jones) and his partner, Agent J (Will Smith), are up against a "bug," one of the dumbest, meanest, ugliest, cussedest varmints in the known universe. The mammal-hating insectoid causes war to be declared between Earth and another galaxy. -- Rita Kempley
Rated PG-13

Director: Barry Sonnenfeld
Cast: Tommy Lee Jones; Will Smith;
Linda Fiorentino; Vincent D'Onofrio;
Rip Torn; Tony Shalhoub; John Alexander; Sergio Calderon; Siobhan Fallon; Richard Hamilton; Carel Struycken; Michael Willis
Running Time: 1 hour, 36 minutes
Filmographies: Tommy Lee Jones; Will Smith; Linda Fiorentino; Rip Torn; Vincent D'Onofrio