Body Heat

Better wear some flowers in your hair

There is often a satirical edge to Mike Myers’s comic speciality, which is characters who are trying and mostly failing to be cool. At some level, he understands the foolishness and moral poverty of the “cool” ideal and loves to laugh at those whose self-presentation falls pathetically short of their own self-image. But there is…

A charming, unpretentious little movie from Mexico that gradually reveals to us hidden depths and a surprising emotional power

Live Flesh by Pedro Almodovar begins with a scene, set on a lonely night in 1970, in which a baby is born on a bus on the way to the hospital. There is a comic bus driver and a comic older woman helping the baby be born. “If idiots like us didn’t give birth,” she…

Are Americans getting to be the good guys in the movies once again? Well, maybe not altogether so.

Is it possible for a man to have friends without regressing to boyhood? Not according to this unfunny comedy