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An adaptation which brings out the worst in Philip Roth’s novel

There’s a lot going on in this mesmerizing Korean movie, yet all appears as still as the mountain lake on which it is set.

Rachel Boynton tells a good story — at least for political junkies — but tries to make it mean something it doesn’t

A great fan of Taste of Cherry, the last film by the Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, I went to his newest, The Wind Will Carry Us with high hopes. I was not disappointed. It is an even better, more engaging and interesting, work than the other, but is recognizably by the same man. In particular,…

A sharp satire of popular romanticism occasionally spills over into mere superciliousness.

Another French paean to amour fou and the existential sainthood appertaining to madmen and criminals — so what’s not to like?