Double Indemnity

If Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman can’t tell the difference between politics and economics, why should Charles Ferguson be able to do so?

A movie that is a very good example of its kind, even though its kind is not to this critic’s taste

A very great film by the Danish director Susanna Bier which is also a parable for our utopian times

Music of the Heart is certainly heartwarming, though you may be inclined to object, as I do, to having your heart warmed by an emotional blast-furnace. The first non-horror flick by its director, Wes Craven, the film is, not surprisingly, altogether too fond of the cheap emotional effect and is constantly taking the easy routes…

An absurd historical fantasy that accomplishes the impossible by making even its fellow Shakespeare authorship cranks look good by comparison

A funny but also depressing take on the lives of women of the Upper West Side