Big Sleep, The

Perhaps not the best of the recent crop of movies about grief, this Israeli film is nevertheless very watchable

When the Cat’s Away (not a very adequate translation of the French Chacun Cherche Son Chat or “Everyone’s looking for his cat”), by Cédric Klapisch, is a charmingly old-fashioned kind of film, in spite of its depiction of very contemporary social realities. It offers a marvelously undimmed romanticism about Paris, and about the glamour of…

Yet another moral tale to illustrate how much is to be deplored by all right-thinking people the “cycle of violence”

Yet another Hollywood attempt to bring the good old rom-com up to date. Who knew that it would prove so difficult?

Mr Jealousy directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) is the kind of film that young filmmakers ought to be making, and that I approve of in theory. But I’m afraid it is just not very good. The jokes in this would-be romantic comedy for the ’90s fall mostly short of being funny, the characters…

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