Affair to Remember, An

Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career and Alexander Payne delivers on the promise of Citizen Ruth and Election

An updating of a classic film of the 1940s goes badly astray in a now-familiar way — by turning its heroes into victims

Those darned racists, who used to have it all their own way before the dawn of our own blessed age of enlightenment, are at it again in this visually impressive Australian morality tale.

A movie better avoided by anyone with any taste is nevertheless extremely funny — and it has something serious to say

La Vita è Bella or Life is Beautiful was directed and co-written by Roberto Benigni, who stars as Guido Orefice, a Jewish waiter in Arezzo before the war. He woos and wins his wife, Dora (Nicoletta Braschi), whom he calls la principessa — the princess — in memorably comic and romantic style and manages to…

Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal after they butchered the movie on release, may be the best B-picture ever made. Watching it today, you have to wonder if he knew what he was doing — which was anticipating the postmodern film…