Philadelphia Story, The

Judy Berlin by Eric Mendelsohn is chiefly worth seeing for the performance of Edie Falco (Carmela Soprano on the HBO’s series about New Jersey gangsters) in the title role, and for its affectionate portrait of suburban Long Island, though nothing much happens in it. Also notable is the performance of the late Madeline Kahn in…

It is, I believe, always a mistake to criticize a movie for not being the book it is based on—or, indeed, for not being anything at all. Every artist deserves the courtesy of being assessed on the basis of what he tried to do and not on that of what he didn’t try to do….

A lovely and heart-felt film from the Chinese director, Chen Kaige, reminds us of what Hollywood used to do so well but does no more

What makes Tim Story’s film so good as moral instruction is what makes it, um, not quite so good as a movie.

Fine performances by its two principal actors are not enough in the end to make this movie very interesting

A lovely film from the author of Gomorrah that explores, with humor but little hope, the God-shaped hole in the life of our culture