Double Indemnity

Another hokey and tasteless attempt at audience manipulation from the Merchant-Ivory rubbish factory

A charmless, tedious and unfunny movie that cultivates an image of — of all things — intelligence

There is more than a hint of political correctness about this film’s self-discoveries, which the audience will have figured out long before the characters do

A charming, unpretentious little movie from Mexico that gradually reveals to us hidden depths and a surprising emotional power

Simon Birch, written and directed by Mark Steven Johnson with a “suggested by” credit to John Irving for A Prayer for Owen Meany, is one of those self-consciously uplifting films, like The Spitfire Grill or Fried Green Tomatoes, that leave one feeling manipulated and disgusted. Like them it has been conceived and designed and put…

The three Australian Twentyman brothers are such lovable criminals that we’re even supposed to love their criminality. In short, they’re just like American movie criminals.