Queen, The

Say what you like about the French, they’re better than we are at making neurosis interesting

A harrowing but dramatically not very interesting account of the Japanese sack of Nanjing in 1937 which is said to have killed 300,000 Chinese

There is a period feel to this documentary. That poverty and neglect cause crime may now not be considered untrue exactly, but is not so true as it once seemed

Rachel Boynton tells a good story — at least for political junkies — but tries to make it mean something it doesn’t

Not that I approve of it myself, but the metaphor of “culture war” would seem to imply two more or less evenly matched forces struggling with might and main to master and destroy or disperse each other. Yet much of what goes under that name is more like culture murder. Even that expression would be…