Public Enemy, The

A weird and often amusing philosophical movie by the screenwriter of Being John Malkovich and Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, only not quite so good as those movies

A progressive parable from a rather unlikely place

A highly watchable but somewhat dubious lesson in how not to be a victim — or at least not a victim of fate

In his previous film, Read My Lips (Sur Mes Lèvres), of 2001, the director Jacques Audiard presented us with a Sartrean hymn to criminality as the route to personal authenticity and moral and existential purity, so it is not surprising that he should have seen in a remake of James Toback’s Fingers (1978) an opportunity…

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

There’s a lot going on in this mesmerizing Korean movie, yet all appears as still as the mountain lake on which it is set.