Apartment, The

A charming French romantic comedy that is also something of a throwback

What a lot of fantastical narrative machinery is employed to make an embarrassingly banal point

A much too long and incoherent but always watchable journey into the ever-stranger country of the 1970s.

As a rule, I think I have as good an eye for “gaggingly mawkish supernatural kitsch” as the next critic, but I found I couldn’t agree with this description by Stephen Holden, the critic for the New York Times, of The Sixth Sense. For some reason more or less obscure to me — perhaps it…

A haunting account of an act of terrorism from an age which, in retrospect, seems relatively free of it

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