Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Critic bait which doesn’t amount to much more in the end than yet another Hollywood paean to the cool hero.

Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar begins with a scene, set on a lonely night in 1970, in which a baby is born on a bus on the way to the hospital. There is a comic bus driver and a comic older woman helping the baby be born. “If idiots like us didn’t give birth,” she…

A Belgian film about a hit man with Alzheimer’s disease promises a bit more than it is able to deliver

A politically partisan re-telling of a familiar story which is intended to place its subject in the best possible light

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Mira Sorvino is the only triumphant thing about this inept adaptation of a Marivaux play.