Sands of Iwo Jima, The

A good-hearted Australian movie that just about rises to the level of being worth watching

Aren’t there enough reasons we know about to oppose the President’s re-election without our having to probe his psyche for hidden ones?

The Way of the Gun, a movie written and directed for critics by Christopher McQuarrie — who won an Oscar for the screenplay of that other critics’ movie, The Usual Suspects — begins and ends with a voiceover narration by one of the two stars, Ryan Phillippe, purporting to debunk the idea of a natural…

More evidence, if evidence were needed, that the movies are not very good at re-imagining the myths and legends of the past, especially not Biblical ones

Still Crazy, directed by Brian Gibson from a script by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, also the writers of The Commitments, does about as good a job as it is possible to do with such predictable material as the reunion twenty years later of an aging 70s pop group. The recent Velvet Goldmine dealt…

A documentary about a man who lost his memory gradually turns into a celebration of his right to self-reinvention