Because I Said So

Bruce McCulloch does the best he can to make a movie his fellow Canadian, Tom Green, cannot reduce to an episode of “The Tom Green Show.” He can’t.

Baz Luhrmann, director of Strictly Ballroom and Romeo+ Juliet seems with each film to be trying to outdo the absurdity and outrageousness of the last. If so, he’s going to have a hard time topping Moulin Rouge, which seems to me to go about as far as you can go with self-parody. He is reported…

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

Un Air de Famille, directed by Cédric Klapisch (While the Cat’s Away) from an original play by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, is enormous fun, and I highly recommend it if you are lucky enough to find it opening in your neighborhood. Denis (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is having affair with Betty (Miss Jaoui) while working for…

A very slow-moving, atmospheric appreciation of the 19^th century outlaw — or at least of his celebrity, which it seems a shame his assassin did not inherit

A harrowing portrayal of an atrocity that no one should see — or want to see