Raiders of the Lost Ark

Beyond Silence, directed by Caroline Link, is one of those tremendously worthy films that deal with handicap and that one had better not say anything bad about because of their great sensitivity and caring. But they illustrate a saying of George Lucas, the director of Star Wars etc, that “emotionally involving the audience is easy….

Like so much of the rest of Neil LaBute’s output, this is a good movie in a bad — I think a very bad — cause.

Josh and Jonas Pate, co-directors of Deceiver, have all the vices of the Coen brothers—mainly pretentiousness and self-conscious artiness—without any of the virtues. Their film is not funny and not even particularly intelligent, although it tries very hard to be the latter. So much so, indeed, that the three main characters are introduced to us…

Great performances and a skillful evocation of provincial England in the 1960s, but a mean-spirited movie all the same

Of course they had to update it: instead of the Korean, the first Gulf War, instead of brainwashing, implanted computer chips, and instead of the commies, the Bush administration

A moving account of the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002 which is, nevertheless, a little too self-regarding