High Noon

A brutish husband, two funny girlfriends, a handsome doctor, folksy Andy Griffith and pie — could this be a recipe for a chick flick?

A very funny movie that, like its authors’ earlier American Pie, only goes wrong when it tries to be too serious.

Despite having almost nothing to do with the novel by Alexandre Dumas from which it is supposedly adapted, The Man in the Iron Mask by Randall Wallace is not so bad as one might have expected it to be. Certainly it is a lot better than the ineffably silly Three Musketeers of a few years…

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…

A new Forrest Gump meets Memento, though this is worse than either. Of course it is festooned with Academy Award nominations

The latest exercise in nihilism and theatre-of-the-absurd from the Coen Brothers