When Harry Met Sally

The puzzling thing about Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Limey, is the very thing he puts to the fore in it, namely the national origin of its central character. What has that got to do with the basic story of an ex-con who’s “not from around here” pursuing the man he believes to be his…

Shadow of the Vampire, directed by E. Elias Merhige, is very slight but frequently entertaining, mainly because of the performance of Willem Dafoe as Max Schreck, acting the part of the actor who acted the part of the vampire in F.W. Murnau’s classic of 1922, Nosferatu. Murnau himself is played with typical menace by John…

Hav Plenty by Christopher Cherot is a young man’s film about love and success in the black middle class and as such, I suppose, is to be applauded merely for existing. At least it is a welcome break from those tiresome boyz in the hood and other forms of playing up to black stereotypes. But…

A movie that proves you don’t have to be a left-wing nut to make documentaries these days; you can also be a right-wing nut

Imagine a more up-to-date, slick-looking Norwegian version of a “Twilight Zone” episode

Chris Rock’s adaptation of — of all people — Eric Rohmer is often funny but morally and dramatically incoherent.