Double Indemnity

The controlled narrative of the news media’s view of the situation in Iraq cannot survive this encounter with the videotaped views of ordinary Iraqis

The latest news from the plaintiff’s bar: Morgan Spurlock may have found a way for fatties to get their pudgy hands on McDonalds’ billions

Lovers of the Arctic Circle is a handsomely constructed fable of love and destiny, written and directed by Julio Medem. Those with a taste for magic realism or the sunny po-mo fables of Jaco Van Dormael (Toto the Hero, The Eighth Day) may well enjoy it, though to my taste its weird Spanish romanticism and…

Wide Awake, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, must have attracted its stars — Denis Leary, Dana Delaney and Rosie O’Donnell, all of whom are badly miscast — because it tells what purports to be a heartwarming story of a kid in Catholic school, presumably of Irish extraction, who has to come to terms with his…

An interesting and intelligent take on the social and cultural dislocations caused by the Czech Republic’s assimilation into the globalized economy

The Hollywood in-joke of presenting Jack Nicholson as a therapist for angry people takes this movie a long way, but not long enough.