Searchers, The

A visual delight which there are numerous but often mutually contradictory reasons for feeling guilty about enjoying

Here are the good things about Traffic, Steven Soderbergh’s new and ambitious — and, indeed, epic-scale movie treatment of what is still here and there called the “drug war.” It does not glamorize drug taking, or drug supplying, though about a third of it deals with the first and about two- thirds with the second. Nor does it…

Orgazmo, written and directed by and starring Trey Parker, exploits the essential comedy in sex by bringing together the adult film industry and Mormonism — an unpromising combination, you might think, though the premiss is good for a few laughs before it sputters out about half way through. Parker plays Joe Young, a Mormon missionary…

Say what you like about the French, they’re better than we are at making neurosis interesting

A self-consciously Christian parable at odds with its own realistic setting

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