Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

A movie about a horse with the heart of a champion doesn’t have a heart of its own

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A fast-moving thriller that is all slick surface and superheroic action with nothing much else to recommend it, apart from its apology for torture

Yet another example of gore, black humor and special effects that only has contempt for the non-special but desirable effect of explaining what is going on

Trial and Error by Jonathan Lynn, to a screenplay by Sara Bernstein and Gregory Bernstein, based on the former’s short story, has its funny moments, though the clichés come too thick and fast for the film to be quite satisfying in the end. In fact the basic situation the comedy presents us with is one…

A remarkable evocation by the director of Central Station of life in the outback of Brazil 90 years ago is spoiled by a facile ending.