Public Enemy, The

Double Jeopardy, directed by Bruce Beresford, is the latest example of what is coming to be one of Hollywood’s favorite new genres: the female paranoia movie. Like The Astronaut’s Wife of a few weeks ago, it deliberately sets out to exploit the sort of insecurity that has become endemic, in some ways the most destructive…

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

Dirty jokes just aren’t what they used to be. What do you have to do around here to violate a taboo, anyway?

Al Gore may turn out to be like Richard Nixon, as some are predicting, by running again in 2008, but Nixon was never this phony

Well, they got the loathing part right anyway. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, directed by Terry Gilliam, is very nearly as unwatchable as the book by Hunter S. Thompson on which it is based is unreadable. In spite of the presence of Johnny Depp, for whose talent I have considerable respect, in the Raul…

The Protestant Reformation? Eric Till appears not to have heard of it. But of course that doesn’t stop his Martin Luther from being a hero of our time