Amazing Grace

Come to think of it, the capacity of Scott’s “minist’ring angel” to be beastly to her menfolk and even more beastly to other women has always been comic.

Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is another chapter in the popular culture’s love affair with flashy intelligence—or at least the image of it. A gritty, black-and-white, low-budget version of Good Will Hunting, it does no better a job, however, at making such intelligence look real. For in addition to the usual mathematical parlor-tricks, this particular…

Remarkably, a movie as stuck on The New York Times as The New York Times is

A brutish husband, two funny girlfriends, a handsome doctor, folksy Andy Griffith and pie — could this be a recipe for a chick flick?

Not of this World by Giuseppe Piccioni is, like Erick Zonca’s The Dreamlife of Angels, a life-changing movie, a movie that I would have thought it impossible to watch unmoved, impossible to forget once seen, but for the fact that the New York Times‘s critic called it a “loamy soap opera” and “a melodrama of…

Holy Man, written by Tom Schulman and directed by Stephen Herek at first looks as if it is going to be a more successful exercise in Hollywood metaphysics than the dreadful What Dreams May Come. Set in the cutthroat corporate world of the Good Buy Home shopping network, run by the splendidly nasty John McBainbridge…