Body Heat

A poor evocation of the Cold War, this movie redeems itself with a portrayal of men doing their best to cope with a colossal military screw-up.

Costa-Gavras — with the help of Rolf Hochhuth — delivers a stinging indictment of the Catholic church’s part in the Holocaust. You were expecting, maybe, exoneration?

An unexpectedly amusing variation on an old French theme

A mostly faithful and often amusing updating of Shakespeare for which there is no apparent reason except as a demonstration of the film-maker’s cleverness

Another triumph of old-fashioned movie-making from the Czech authors of Kolya.

Wide Awake, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, must have attracted its stars — Denis Leary, Dana Delaney and Rosie O’Donnell, all of whom are badly miscast — because it tells what purports to be a heartwarming story of a kid in Catholic school, presumably of Irish extraction, who has to come to terms with his…