Sergeant York

There would hardly be any reason to notice Me, Myself and Irene, the latest in the series of gross-out comedies from Peter and Bobby Farrelly that includes Dumb and Dumber, Kingpin and There’s Something About Mary, if it did not provide yet another example of the way in which vulgar Freudianism has become the religion…

Jane Austen as seen by Whit Stillman — who doesn’t quite see all of her

A movie about a horse with the heart of a champion doesn’t have a heart of its own

A harrowing portrayal of an atrocity that no one should see — or want to see

Good Will Hunting by Gus Van Sant is, like Kicked in the Head, an illustration of what happens when you hand beardless boys $20 million dollars or so and say, “Go make a movie, kid.” Good Will is better than Kicked, but then anything this side of Flubber is better than Kicked. The boys in…

An interesting historical essay-in-film on the political complexity of Civil War America which, however, goes badly wrong toward the end