by Walter Chaw As a huge admirer of John Sayles's middle - period body of work — a period marked by such pictures as Matewan, Eight Men Out, and Lone Star (still my
pick for the best American
film of the Nineties)-- it pains me to look at something like Honeydripper and recognize in it
everything I like
about Sayles side - by - side with
everything that's fast making him irrelevant.