When Harry Met Sally

The American distributors who refused an American market to Adrian Lyne’s new film version of Lolita until it was already booked for its first run on Showtime, the cable network (beginning on August 2), said that they did so on the grounds that the film was no good. Of course, these are the same people…

Adam Sandler as the new Gary Cooper? If you can believe that, you might actually like this awful, unfunny movie.

A one-joke wonder — and the wonder is that anyone finds even the one joke funny

Happy, Texas, directed by Mark Illsley, is an intermittently funny tale of two escaped convicts who steal a recreational vehicle and find themselves forced to maintain their cover by impersonating a couple of gay organizers of little-girl beauty pageants. Jeremy Northam, an excellent British actor with a very good American accent, and Steve Zahn are…

A heroic tale of the sexual revolution which can be judged either by the heroism or by the sexual revolution

“Age is unnecessary,” as King Lear ruefully noticed, though there is more than one way of disposing of it