Raiders of the Lost Ark

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Kids whose only knowledge of World War II comes from the movies will be relieved to learn it was a struggle between the plucky pigeons of Britain and the fearsome falcons of the Third Reich

Another political documentary conceived of not as investigation but as entertainment for those who already know all they care to know of its subject — except that it forgets to entertain

A delightfully profound parable of love lost and found

All Hollywood agrees that anytime someone makes a movie about TV or the media culture it is ipso facto a serious picture. And a picture — like, for instance, Natural Born Killers — which hasn’t a serious bone in its body can be instantly transformed into a serious picture by the addition of a “satirical”…

A sometimes amusing take on a traditional Hollywood theme that ends in something close to despair