Sands of Iwo Jima, The

Enemy at the Gates, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, aspires to the Saving Private Ryan level of spectacle, but offers a bit more in the way of dramatic coherence. What a curious way it has, however, of representing for us the vast slaughterhouse of the Battle of Stalingrad—that is, as a solo duel between a Russian…

A great actors’ movie but, to that extent, not so great as a movie — From The American Spectator

Another hokey and tasteless attempt at audience manipulation from the Merchant-Ivory rubbish factory

Anyone who has ever had anything to do with schizophrenia will tell you that there is nothing attractive or heroic or artistic about it, but the romantic myth that there is dies hard. The talented Samuel L. Jackson is the latest star prepared to take on the role of holy madman in The Caveman’s Valentine,…

A portrait of modern sanctity which — very oddly, in my view — asks not to be taken too seriously

An inspirational tribute to European unity from a director who is clearly capable of better things