Body Heat

Anywhere But Here, Wayne Wang’s adaptation to the screen of a novel by Mona Simpson, is a total chick-flick but still worth seeing for the terrific performances of Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman as the mother and daughter whose troubled relationship it is all about. In fact, the greatness of these two performances rather exaggerates…

Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life by Michael Paxton turns out to be a product of the Rand industry instead of a critical and dispassionate look at the life of the late novelist and philosopher. For anyone of critical temperament, watching it is only slightly less creepy than sitting through something called L. Ron Hubbard:…

Wes Anderson’s new film lives up to the high standard he set for himself in Rushmore (1998) and Bottle Rocket (1996). A must-see rating.

What a coincidence! The good people in Steven Spielberg’s latest rhapsody on a UFO theme are the same as the news media’s good people (or aliens) and the bad people ditto.

Hollywood has been insulting adult intelligence for years, but this movie is an insult even to teenage intelligence.

A Place Called Chiapas, directed by the Canadian Nettie Wild, is a documentary about what the New York Times has rightly called “the world’s first post-modern revolution.” It begins with military vehicles emerging from darkness and a voiceover talking about the Zapatista movement of the Chiapan campesinos, led by Subcomandante Marcos, as having been “born…