Critics' Voices: Apr. 1, 1991

MOVIES

KING RALPH. John Goodman is the Ralph Kramden of the '90s -- but he enjoys being a slob. Have fun watching him raise a royal ruckus as a Las Vegas lounge singer who unaccountably becomes King of England. Writer-director David Ward sustains this merry, guileless fable with near perfect pitch.

THE HARD WAY. It's not just cars that collide in John Badham's exhilarating action comedy. It's fantasy vs. reality, laid-back movie actor vs. angry cop, the easy readings of Michael J. Fox vs. the bust-a-blood-vessel intensity of James Woods -- in short, it's L.A. vs. N.Y.

TELEVISION

TWIN PEAKS (ABC,...

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