Apartment, The

An enjoyable and well-made film from British director Mike Leigh which, nevertheless, doesn’t quite satisfy

A film that tries to sell its anti-war message by making American soldiers in Iraq into victim-heroes. Haven’t we seen this somewhere before?

Nothing to Lose, written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, stars Tim Robbins as Nick, an advertising executive in Los Angeles who is carjacked by “T” (Martin Lawrence) while in a state of shock over his apparent discovery of his wife, Ann (Kelly Preston), in bed with his boss, Phil (Michael McKean). Sittiing at an intersection…

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A great movie as spectacle, though also an illustration of the limits of spectacle

A child’s-eye view, and therefore a rather amusing treatment, of social pathologies that are, in reality, not at all amusing