Joseph Mazzello

Friday October 27, 1995      "Three Wishes" is a wonderful film, full of warmth, humor and charm, a family drama with the possibility of the supernatural. It is an uncommonly accurate period piece, the kind that goes beneath the surface, and its stars,...

Friday January 16, 1998      "Star Kid" comes up with a fresh gimmick for the new boy in middle school, you know, the one who is menaced by the usual schoolyard bully and who is tongue-tied when he tries to speak to the prettiest girl in class. The...

Friday September 11, 1998      The sap is flowing early this year in fictional Gravestown, Maine, the primary setting of John Irving's complex novel "A Prayer for Owen Meany" and for filmmaker Mark Steven Johnson's simple "Simon Birch," a syrupy...

Friday April 21, 1995      "The Cure," a well-acted heart-tugger about two 11-year-old boys, one of whom has AIDS, works as a drama on friendship and its challenges, but has too many loose ends, too much that hasn't been thoroughly thought out. Where...