Sands of Iwo Jima, The

The Farrelly brothers aren’t impressed by shallow, skin-deep beauty
like Gwyneth Paltrow’s. Not much they aren’t.

A heart-warming tale of exile and loss and reconciliation

The former satirist Morgan Spurlock makes the mistake of taking on a subject to which he is more sympathetic than he is to McDonald’s, the Bush administration or product placement

Like other sorts of horror movies, The Stepford Wives, has now gone postmodern and ironic, for who today is terrified of being forced to be a housewife?

What art can there be in the portrayal of that which we have no business witnessing?

Not that I approve of it myself, but the metaphor of “culture war” would seem to imply two more or less evenly matched forces struggling with might and main to master and destroy or disperse each other. Yet much of what goes under that name is more like culture murder. Even that expression would be…