Because I Said So

I really wanted to like Mouse Hunt, which was officially directed by Gore Verbinski but unfortunately bears the hallmarks of the directorial style of Steven Spielberg, out of whose “Dreamworks” studio it comes. Every now and then, it is true, the skills of the comic duo of Nathan Lane and Lee Evans as the brothers…

A documentary about a man who lost his memory gradually turns into a celebration of his right to self-reinvention

Occasionally witty writing and good acting are not enough to save a movie whose high concept is just silly

The full length version of my review of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Redux which appeared in a shortened form in the September-October American Spectator

A Brazilian revenge-drama is too portentous and fraught with religious significance for all but the most militant of atheists to appreciate

A visually and dramatically impressive movie spoiled, in the end by a merely coy unwillingness to lift the artificial curtain between reality and unreality