High Noon

The Sixth Day, directed by Roger Spottiswoode, is a movie about cloning that is itself a clone — a genetic duplicate of every other Arnold Schwarzenegger vehicle of the last 15 or 20 years. Actually, it is a clone of a clone of a clone, since the Schwarzenegger movie is itself a clone of a…

If Freaky Friday is the Disney version of what it’s like to be an adolescent girl with a single mother, this is more like the reality.

Over the opening credits of the Coen brothers’ new movie, O Brother, Where Art Thou? we hear Harry McLintock singing “The Big Rock Candy Mountain,” a song which (I seem to remember) was once an anthem of the revolutionary International Workers of the World or “Wobblies” and which enjoyed a renewed vogue during the Depression…

A feminine, if not feminist, look at the world, but one that is beautiful to look at and that packs an emotional punch

A heart-warming but rather self-congratulatory look backward at the people of 1947, few of whom could be said to come up to our high standards

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