When Harry Met Sally

Nurse Betty, the new film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors), is wonderfully enjoyable all the way through until its last ten minutes when suddenly the wild and thrilling ride it has offered us comes to a dead end. The story concerns Betty (Renée Zellweger), a small-town waitress from…

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Another dazzling film from the director of Nine Queens but, unfortunately, the last there will be

In spite of a tremendous performance by Noah Taylor as the young Hitler, Menno Mayjes’s film is fatally mired in the present.

It pains me to have to criticize William Friedkin’s movie, Rules of Engagement, because it is that rare thing, a pro- military movie out of Hollywood. Moreover, its scenes of combat are well-made and gripping to watch — both those set in Vietnam in 1968, when a younger Terry Childers (Samuel L. Jackson) saved the…

The movie it took twelve years to make — about a childhood that appears to be taking much, much longer