Sands of Iwo Jima, The

Naturally, I had hoped to be able to avoid going to see Lasse Hallström’s sickly-sweet Chocolat. After The Cider House Rules, indeed, I hoped never to have to see another movie by Hallström. But when Chocolat was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar I resigned myself to the necessity of having to waste two hours…

Looking for a reason to back Bush? Have a look at George Butler’s hagiography of John Kerry.

Tim Burton’s addiction to the fantastical is not improved by its encounter with the Southern Gothic. This one is only for incorrigible Burtonophiles.

. . . And now Lewis Schwarzberg raises the question: does being a patriot require you to be a sentimentalist as well?

In spite of all the publicity, Red Corner is rather a roundabout apology for than a criticism of the Red Chinese regime. Richard Gere may be personally hostile to the Chinese gerontocracy, but the movie he wishes to showcase his opposition takes its politics in a depressingly familiar direction which leaves Jiang Zemin and his…

East is East by Damien O’Donnell, from a script by Ayub Khan-Din, is worth seeing because of its wry look at the culture clash between East and West in a working class area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, in the early 1970s, and for the terrific performance of Om Puri in the role of the Pakistani…