Sands of Iwo Jima, The

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

The best that can be said about a movie that should never have been made is that it’s not so bad as might have been expected

The Best Man, written and directed (in Italian) by Pupi Avati begins by solemnly informing us that “Once upon a time, women would marry not knowing what love was. . .” And lest you think, in a moment of nervousness, that you might not know what it is either, the film hastens to explain that…

Hope Floats directed by Forrest Whitaker to a screenplay by Steven Rodgers is a feel-good movie selling a relatively innocuous version of the Hollywood dream—i.e. that all the world’s problems come from people, especially parents and children, not hugging each other enough and giving tongue to their feelings of love for each other. The other…

A German film whose humor, sentiment, charm and lightness of touch make it seem almost French

Impossible to be taken seriously, the movie is nevertheless quite a lot of fun, mostly because of its star.