Picks and Pans Review: Best of Show

UPDATED 08/15/1988 at 01:00 AM EDT Originally published 08/15/1988 at 01:00 AM EDT

>FOR ACTION: MIDNIGHT RUN Hold-your-breath thrills and first-rate acting by Robert De Niro and Charles Grodin.

FOR LAUGHS: A FISH CALLED WANDA Brit madman John Cleese lands a big one.

FOR DRAMA: A WORLD APART A gripping look at a South African journalist (Barbara Hershey) fighting apartheid.

FOR OUTDOOR/INDOOR SPORTS: BULL DURHAM Baseball groupie Susan Sarandon turns bush leaguers Kevin Costner and Tim Robbins into big-time lovers.

FOR CHILLS: MONKEY SHINES Mix a man, a simian and a few suspicious injections. Result? Instant goose bumps.

FOR MAGIC: WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT Disney does it again. Wabbit twiumphant.

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