High Noon

If our moronic politicians were not as corrupt as three-day-old roadkill they wouldn’t need the media to tell them what to do

Guess what? Shakespeare is once again “our contemporary.” Yet how much more interesting he is when he is allowed to be out of date.

Breakdown by Jonathan Mostow is a superior sort of thriller that is a step in the right direction after recent Hollywood examples of the genre—that is, in the direction of the things that ordinary, reasonable people really do fear. Which is to say not unbelievably big Amazonian snakes or volcanos erupting in downtown Los Angeles…

A delightful pastiche of 1950s rom-coms with a weird French accent

For Luc Besson, angels are apparently as sexy as assassins — though this means that they’re not very persuasive as angels

Election was directed and co-written by Alexander Payne, the promising young director of Citizen Ruth. Once again, he shows that he has real talent in this often hilarious tale of life at George Washington Carver High in Omaha. Like that other recent success, Rushmore, the film looks at high school as something of a metaphor…