Public Enemy, The

Anyone who loves words and word games, and especially anyone who has ever struggled with the New York Times crossword, will find a lot to enjoy in this movie

David Spade may not be the most unfunny of the alumni of “Saturday Night Live” to have gone to Hollywood, but he gives Rob Schneider a run for his money.

Clint Eastwood gives us more of his seemingly endless late-life penance for Dirty Harry when all we want is for Harry to come back

The English version of the title of Amores Perros, written by Guillermo Arriaga and directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, is given by its distributors as Love is a Bitch, though this seems to be something of an unhappy compromise, suggesting one of those assembly-line romantic comedies cranked out by Hollywood to exploit the fame of…

[Also see discussion in “Entry from July 27, 2011” under “My Diary”] I liked After Life by Hirokazu Kore-eda, whose previous film was Maborosi. It is a witty contribution to the genre that includes Here Comes Mr. Jordan, Stairway to Heaven and so forth, but it gives the bureaucracy of death a peculiarly Japanese look….

A disappointing outing for one of the greatest directors working today