Bullitt (1968)

Religious wildcatters and spiritual entrepreneurs have long been a part of the American story. It was only a matter of time before someone brought the Holocaust into the show

Music of the Heart is certainly heartwarming, though you may be inclined to object, as I do, to having your heart warmed by an emotional blast-furnace. The first non-horror flick by its director, Wes Craven, the film is, not surprisingly, altogether too fond of the cheap emotional effect and is constantly taking the easy routes…

An immensely moving account of goodness, holiness and Christian martyrdom — remember that? — amid a political landscape much like our own

Billed as a “psychological thriller,” this movie apparently thinks sticking in not one but two psychos means that anything can happen without being dramatically accounted for

A respectful period romance which, however, doesn’t give us as much of the period as it does of the romance

A heroic tale of the sexual revolution which can be judged either by the heroism or by the sexual revolution