Big Sleep, The

An unintentional experiment by the National Endowment for the Arts to show that any time you put war and “art” together you get anti-war propaganda

The fine Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar employs his talents unworthily on behalf of propaganda for “the right to die”

A Smile Like Yours, directed by Keith Samples (co-written by Samples and Kevin Meyer), starts off as a kind of throwback to those 1950s comedies in which a lovable ditz of a wife went around getting into trouble which her steady, long-suffering straight-man of a husband would then have to get her out of. George…

The one slightly sour note in Nora Ephron’s cloyingly sweet Julie & Julia comes near the end of the film when one of our two heroines, Julie Powell (Amy Adams), has become a hit with the public — or at least enough of a hit to realize the prospect of the book deal which will…

A liberal gets alarmed at the state of our education system and the education establishment that runs it so badly — but not too alarmed

A movie that just goes to show you that the virtues of understatement can be overstated