Critics' Voices: Oct. 23, 1989

THEATER

OUR COUNTRY'S GOOD. The acerbic antimilitary play, named London's best last season, gets double exposure: the original Royal Court version is at the Canadian Stage Company in Toronto, while the Mark Taper Forum in Los Angeles offers a U.S. premiere.

AUGUST SNOW. Revered novelist Reynolds Price debuts a trilogy at the Cleveland Play House (titles of the other works: Night Dance and Better Days).

MOVIES

DRUGSTORE COWBOY. Matt Dillon and friends go on a drug spree in Gus Van Sant's eye-catching tour of the lower depths. Dillon, a punk Montgomery Clift, is pure Acapulco gold as a smart addict who...

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