Brief Encounter

The paradox of cinéma vérité is that the excitement of being in ever closer touch with real life via the camera is always being undermined by the banality of what real life generally has to show us. For this reason, the most vérité generally has to be the most feigning. But the various sorts of…

An absorbing if not-very-happy study of happiness — and unhappiness — among the English middle classes

If the title is coming to seem an accurate description of our world, it is the only thing about this movie that rings true

The impulse behind this multicultural French film is a good one, but the translation makes it sound as if these French high school kids were trying, and failing, to talk in Ebonics

Mira Nair’s movie, with its Robert-Altman-goes-to-New-Delhi panorama of Indian life, means to be a feel-good movie. But who wants to feel good?

Religious wildcatters and spiritual entrepreneurs have long been a part of the American story. It was only a matter of time before someone brought the Holocaust into the show