It Happened One Night

A Norwegian film whose amusing qualities are the spoonful of sugar that helps the message-medicine go down

Ponette by Jacques Doillon is a tribute to the precocious brilliance of the child actress, Victoire Thivisol, and presumably to Doillon himself for directing her and the other remarkable children — Matiaz Bureau, Delphine Schilz and Leopoldine Serre — who take up most of the screen time here. The film is worth seeing just for…

The movies have in the past found it profitable to cater for almost every kind of paranoia there is. The California fantasy factories must be getting a lot of business out of even the survivalist types—who, you would think, must live many miles from the nearest Multiplex—since they managed to get some black helicopters into…

Picture Perfect, directed by Glenn Gordon Caron, is a nicely crafted picture calculated to warm whatever organ it is that serves advertising executives in the office of a heart. Jennifer Aniston stars as Kate, a young and ambitious specimen of that breed whose hopes of love seem to rise no higher than bedding, in a…

The real-life version of Rocky finally gets his own movie

A funny and enjoyable movie but also one which loses a great opportunity through taking the movies too much at their own valuation