It Happened One Night

A lamentably bad Christmas movie with no more understanding of the traditions and beliefs it exploits than the ninnies it portrays

Run Lola Run, written and directed by Tom Tykwer, is the kind of film for which critics must have invented the word “stylish.” It is so stylish in fact that it thinks it has nothing to do but to be stylish. And indeed many critics seem to have forgiven it all its many little incoherences…

More Christmas pandering to the kids. But do the kids really want to be pandered to?

Saving Grace, written by Craig Ferguson and Mark Crowdy and directed by Nigel Cole, I found a surprisingly charming and thoroughly entertaining film until about three quarters of the way through, when it lapsed into a tired druggy fantasy that made the rest of the thing look bad retrospectively. I think the key to making…

The fine Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar employs his talents unworthily on behalf of propaganda for “the right to die”

More proof, if proof were needed, that feminist empowerment fantasies can be dangerous to women.