Raiders of the Lost Ark

A thrilling, true-life account of American heroism in Afghanistan in 2005 and an end-around Hollywood’s leftist politics

Another sloppy, self-indulgent and unfunny film from Woody Allen’s seemingly interminable late period

A Puerto Rican charmer should have stayed a drug dealer and not got mixed up with those crooks on Wall Street.

For Love of the Game, starring Kevin Costner as Billy Chapel, an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers who hopes to end his career with a perfect game, turns out to be yet another Costnerian marathon of mawkishness and self indulgence. Oddly for a film that is ostensibly about a guy who has to learn…

The Boxer by Jim Sheridan deserves some praise for being one of the very few among the spate of recent movies about “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland (including Sheridan’s own) that actually tries to depict the I.R.A. as it is and not with the romantic patina of Michael Collins or, most recently, The Jackal. But…

Rich and powerful Mr Hearst only wants to be loved! The story ought to be in the funny pages of a Hearst newspaper — or a movie by Orson Welles. Peter Bogdanovich’s version is a yawn.