Amazing Grace

An interestingly innovative and very watchable updating of Shakespeare’s late study of military honor

Another slick product of the contemporary movie business’s propaganda arm

The Thin Red Line, adapted from James Jones’s novel of Guadalcanal by the “legendary” Terrence Malick, director of Badlands and Days of Heaven, represents an “historic” return to movies for its director after a 20 year layoff. It is a mess — a classic case of what happens when you work on something for too…

An updating of a classic film of the 1940s goes badly astray in a now-familiar way — by turning its heroes into victims

The fine Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar employs his talents unworthily on behalf of propaganda for “the right to die”

Steve Martin makes the mistake of over-estimating his own talents in taking on a role made famous by Peter Sellers