On paper, the heist movie "Reindeer Games" should have been a slam-dunk. It had action master John Frankenheimer ("The Manchurian Candidate," "The Train," "Ronin") at the helm, a buzzy cast of ...

Did it deserve better than it received from Scrooge-like critics and audiences? Yet “Reindeer Games” landed with a thud 25 years ago — critics mostly hated it, and it flailed at the box ...