Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)

Nicole Kidman as a Russian mail-order bride? Who wouldn’t let her beat him up and turn him to a life of crime?

An entertaining romp very much in the familiar style, and with the familiar wit, of its author, Wes Anderson — though no more than that

The problem isn’t that a 40-year-old woman seduces a 15-year-old boy, it’s that the seduction is not even considered morally problematical.

Kicked in the Head directed by Matthew Harrison and co-written by him and the film’s star, Kevin Corrigan, is another of those slacker movies whose makers got far too much money far too early in their careers. This is a movie so immature in its conception, its writing and its execution that even in spite…

Once old men used to tell the war stories from their youth; now they tell the anti-war stories. Both should be taken with a grain of salt.

A sometimes amusing but morally illiterate "neo-Western" which seems likely to spawn numerous imitators