Public Enemy, The

Sensitive writers rendered dysfunctional by their dysfunctional families — hm, where have we heard something like that before?

A festival of unashamed Hollywood fakery by a director who ought to know better

That icky little left-wing prole, Robert Altman, amuses himself by satirizing his social betters. Does that make you feel better about yourself?

Moralizing thieves seem to appeal to a Hispanic audience — rather than the merely immoral thieves who apparently appeal to the rest of us

A bit of determined uplift that would be more effective if it didn’t try so hard

American Psycho is as a movie as it was as a book, not a serious work of art but merely something designed to be talked about in the media and thus to confer money and celebrity upon its now plural authors. This is important, because not all books or movies that are talked about in…