Movies

December, 1992

Already Rated NC-17 for its general release, Bad Lieutenant (Aries) is a dark morality play with shock value to spare. Harvey Keitel, stoned and stalkers in one striking sequence, plays the title role. He's a New York detective, rotten to the core, who peddles drugs, gambles recklessly and misuses his authority. A lapsed Catholic on a high-speed guilt trip, he masturbates in front of two young women and becomes psychotically obsessed with the case of a beautiful nun (Frankie Thorn) who has been...