Amazing Grace

This film by Peter Hedges tries hard to be both charming and uplifting but doesn’t quite succeed in being either

A movie with the worldview of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, but too inclined to let what it sees as the One Per Cent off the hook

An exciting and visually impressive cinematic excursion into the ballet which ultimately fails to break free of the shackles of irony.

Alas for Haiti! Its rulers are crooks and thugs, its religion is voodoo and its heroes are communists

Hélas! The good-humored detachment and optimism that François Truffaut brought to the French cinema seems to have died with him. Barring the rare exception, like last year’s Un Air de Famille by Cédric Klappisch, each new French film that manages to get itself released in this country seems to try to outdo the last in…

M by Fritz Lang, first made in 1931, has now been reissued in a new and refurbished print and is a film which movie buffs all ought to rush out to see. The use of the camera and the visual imagery and composition in this story of what we should nowadays call a serial killer,…