Gene Siskel and Roger Ebert review five new movies and choose a laser disc collection for their "Video Pick of the Week". Two thumbs down for the dumb and implausible serial killer movie,
Striking Distance (1993). Two thumbs up for
Into the West (1992). It's a fresh and unconventional Irish adventure story of two gypsy boys and their horse. Two thumbs up again for Martin Scorsese's New York period piece,
The Age of Innocence (1993). Scorsese adapts the Edith Wharton story for a movie that is surprisingly of a piece with his earlier work. Two thumbs up yet again for
Household Saints (1993). Siskel says it will take a lot of good movies to knock this meditation on spirituality off his best-of-the-year list. They give their fourth thumbs up of the day for the semi-documentary
Baraka (1992). Both critics were thrilled to go in dozens of places around the world they had never been. Ebert takes a look at the expensive but elaborate new laser disc set, "The Star Wars Trilogy: The Definitive Collection".
—J. Spurlin