Double Indemnity

La Séparation, directed by Christian Vincent from a screenplay written by himself and Dan Franck, tells the story of the unraveling of a marriage, except that it is not a marriage. Pierre (Daniel Auteuil), a book illustrator, and Anne (Isabelle Huppert), who is some kind of professional or businesswoman, have lived together for years, and…

Hope Floats directed by Forrest Whitaker to a screenplay by Steven Rodgers is a feel-good movie selling a relatively innocuous version of the Hollywood dream—i.e. that all the world’s problems come from people, especially parents and children, not hugging each other enough and giving tongue to their feelings of love for each other. The other…

A relatively fair and dispassionate look at anti-abortion activists by a couple of young film-makers on the other side which, however, doesn’t tell us much that we don’t already know

The real-life version of Rocky finally gets his own movie

A visual delight which there are numerous but often mutually contradictory reasons for feeling guilty about enjoying

A historical travesty will pass unnoticed if it contains a “message” reassuring to the liberal and progressive consensus