Searchers, The

An exercise in political incorrectness that is made palatable, so at least one may hope, to a strongly liberal and politically correct audience

Un Air de Famille, directed by Cédric Klapisch (While the Cat’s Away) from an original play by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, is enormous fun, and I highly recommend it if you are lucky enough to find it opening in your neighborhood. Denis (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is having affair with Betty (Miss Jaoui) while working for…

A fine war movie in spite of its being pitched to an audience with a pacifist predisposition

A very slow-moving, atmospheric appreciation of the 19^th century outlaw — or at least of his celebrity, which it seems a shame his assassin did not inherit

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An often funny, less-often satirical satire of the movie business which suffers from the usual weakness of its kind: it’s only kidding