Capsule Reviews of AFI Film Festival

Following are capsule reviews of a selection of the screenings today and Sunday at the American Film Institute Los Angeles International Film Festival at the Cineplex Odeon Cenutry Plaza Cinemas.

SATURDAY

‘Never on Tuesday’

United States, 1989, 89 minutes 11:10 p.m. A funny, slick technical exercise, with an all-star Brat Pack guest cast, about two girl-crazy teen-agers who crash into a beautiful young model’s car in the desert. When the model turns out to be a Manhattan-bound lesbian, feminism and male hormones are put to a severe test. The most impressive thing about writer-director Adam Rifkin is his age: At 20, he’s got a good handle on many of the pop-movie skills and tricks that would-be sellouts struggle for at 40. If he comes on here a bit too much like imitation Robert Zemeckis, salted with Ron Howard and John Hughes, at least he has lots of time to grow and develop.