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Oliver Stone’s latest, Any Given Sunday, is not for those, like me, who are put off by the Oliver Stone’s style of moviemaking. Leaving aside for the moment the fact that what he has to say is often historically inaccurate, irresponsibly speculative or politically tendentious, the worst thing about a Stone movie is the attempt…

This one’s a real winner — if you can bear to watch it.

The French may look down their noses at bourgeois morality, but aren’t they witty and charming?

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

A political screed masquerading as a documentary about the crisis in consumer credit

Devil’s Advocate, directed by Taylor Hackford to a script by Jonathan Lemkin and Tony Gilroy, is like Playing God in being a Hollywood version of the Faust legend. It is a more theologically sophisticated one, if ultimately no more successful. Al Pacino plays the devil under the name of “John Milton”—perhaps because this film comes…