Because I Said So

A visual feast designed to make more palatable the movie’s dubious theology.

There is a certain kind of modern novel that is not really a novel at all but a series of ruminations on life, the universe and everything by a narrator who is a would-be philosopher and thinly disguised stand-in for the author. The master of this sort of ruminative fiction is Richard Ford, whose novels,…

A charming, unpretentious little movie from Mexico that gradually reveals to us hidden depths and a surprising emotional power

Hollywood’s wars are still with the same enemy they have been fighting for 30 years — the Pentagon. But there are signs of growing pro-Americanism.

A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself

A very watchable if somewhat slight account of the stranded hiker who had to cut his own arm off to survive