High Noon

Guys & Balls (Männer wie wir), directed by Sherry Horman and written by Benedikt Gollhardt, is based on the perennial gay fantasy of the latent homosexuality of those involved in such manly pursuits as soccer — or football as it is known to the rest of the world. Ecki (Maximilian Brückner) is the goalie for Boldrup…

Don Diego (Anthony Hopkins), the aristocratic settler in Spanish California who dons The Mask of Zorro to fight against his aristocratic brethren and for the people as “Zorro,” the fox, is a man of apparently no politics, though he repeatedly risks his life, no internal conflicts, in spite of being “a traitor to your country…

Victim chic claims another victim. Wouldn’t you just know that it would get an Oscar nomination for Best Picture?

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A real train-wreck of a movie from which, nevertheless, we may learn something

A remarkably watchable Anglo-Indian lesson in moral realities without any moralizing