Raiders of the Lost Ark

The fairy-tale implications of title of The Princess and the Warrior (or, with German logic, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin), written and directed by Tom Tykwer, is both misleading and not. The film is set in the present day, in Wuppertal, Germany, and is told realistically — without even the fractured time scheme of Tykwer’s…

Though message-laden and inclined to a facile view of international politics, this is a fresh and funny look at the travails of family life

Ben Stiller is at his best when playing unlikeable characters. He shouldn’t be trying to soften them and make them more likeable.

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A charmer about the clash between teen-culture and reality whose cynicism and striving after hipness make it less good than it might have been