Philadelphia Story, The

The Way of the Gun, a movie written and directed for critics by Christopher McQuarrie — who won an Oscar for the screenplay of that other critics’ movie, The Usual Suspects — begins and ends with a voiceover narration by one of the two stars, Ryan Phillippe, purporting to debunk the idea of a natural…

Once again the Coen brothers show themselves to be master craftsmen of the cinema without anything much to say

A feel-bad movie about one of the world’s more intractable crisis points which unwittingly illustrates the inadequacies of the progressive approach to such problems

A politically partisan re-telling of a familiar story which is intended to place its subject in the best possible light

In spite of the exertions of a talented cast, it is very hard to warm up to a musical whose view of the human condition is so unremittingly bleak.

Another sensitive British evocation of childhood with a brilliant child actor — but one whose focus keeps shifting to the old folks