Bullitt (1968)

An interesting and authentic-looking account of men in combat in Afghanistan but one with a depressingly familiar anti-war subtext

As he did in Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur tries to make his historical characters less like themselves and more like us. Why the self-congratulation?

As I watched Anthony Minghella’s adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s novel, The Talented Mr. Ripley, I kept asking myself why this movie was being made. The decrepitude of its subject matter is obvious from its very first scenes when we see the eponymous Mr Ripley (Matt Damon) accompanying a lieder singer at a private recital for…

"In short measures life may perfect be." — Ben Jonson

One of the classics from the great days of the earnest “intellectual spectaculars” of the 1960s comes to the Film Forum

A not-uninteresting first feature from Dylan Kidd is a little too glib about providing its hero with the fixings for a moral makeover, but, all the same, it’s hard not to like him.