Apartment, The

A film about monks whose own stillness and spaciousness reflects the immensities they spend their lives contemplating

Do old people still fall in love? For sure. But does anybody really want to watch them doing it?

Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar begins with a scene, set on a lonely night in 1970, in which a baby is born on a bus on the way to the hospital. There is a comic bus driver and a comic older woman helping the baby be born. “If idiots like us didn’t give birth,” she…

A coming of age story set in an immigrant subculture that’s worth seeing mainly for the acting

This is a young man’s movie, but one which even many young people are likely to find very tedious

Once upon a time, Hollywood’s stock-in-trade was the “wom-jeop” movie, designed to appeal to the chivalrous instincts of the boys and young men for whom it was intended by placing an attractive woman in jeopardy and then supplying a handsome young hero with whom the youths could identify themselves to rescue her. Its post-feminist equivalent…