Big Sleep, The

Abbott and Costello bump people off

A well-made and emotionally satisfying study in elemental human passions that is splendidly down-to-earth — in more ways than one

Another funny, touching film about the relations between fathers and sons from the director of The Lost Embrace

A charmless, tedious and unfunny movie that cultivates an image of — of all things — intelligence

The title of the latest movie to come out of the Evil Empire is Disney’s “The Kid”, possibly because the filmmakers were afraid that people might confuse it with the Charlie Chaplin classic of 1921—though more likely because Disney’s appalling hubris just can’t bear not to have its loathsome name on everything it produces. The…

A funny and well-observed chick-flick that, nevertheless, never quite gets us beyond the recognition that it’s hell being a woman.