Apartment, The

Lucie Aubrac by Claude Berri (the great director of Jean de Florette and Manon of the Spring), is another illustration of the use of cliché in great movie-making. Based on the true life events recorded in the memoir, Ils partiront dans l’ivresse by Lucie Aubrac herself, this film hits us over the head with its…

A funny but pointless movie that has already died the death at the box office. Why is that, I wonder?

Beautiful people having funny adventures on the wrong side of the law and getting rich. You’ve just got to love them —  don’t you?

Is it possible to make a movie about reality TV that’s more cheesy than reality TV? Amazingly enough, it is.

The Rainmaker is redundant proof that Francis Ford Coppola has lost it permanently. If you thought that things couldn’t get any worse for him after the egregious Jack, wait till you see this two-hour infomercial on behalf of the Trial Lawyers Association. Coppola seems to have used up whatever stores of subtlety and moral ambiguity…