Amazing Grace

A very watchable version of Charles Portis’s 1968 novel that is better than its authors’ recent form but still not so good as the first movie version

An often funny but ultimately depressing take on where and how American family values, if any, still exist

There are a lot of things wrong with Howard Deutch’s new film, The Replacements, beginning with the fact that it is a football movie and therefore, in my view, extremely limited in its scope for originality. But it is just about worth seeing. There are some good jokes — I especially liked the one where…

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

To the list of things we wouldn’t know if Hollywood didn’t tell us we have added this summer the fact that mechanical people will one day be better-designed than the original, organic models, that the Japanese in 1941 were a noble and warlike race whose bombing of Pearl Harbor was justified but regretted even as…