Body Heat

If it looks as if the stock of anti-Iraq War movies is drying up, you can always re-release an old anti-Vietnam War movie and no one will know the difference

A Brazilian revenge-drama is too portentous and fraught with religious significance for all but the most militant of atheists to appreciate

Ours is a scary old world, all right, and we cling to our toys like children — but this is a point that it is way too easy to overdemonstrate.

In the New York Times‘s review of East-West, a Franco-Russian production directed by Régis Wargnier, A.O. Scott noted that, on its release in France last year, the film had been criticized for “its supposed anti-Communism” but that, it seemed to him, “its politics are fairly restrained.” How typical of the New York Times to assume…

Another sloppy, self-indulgent and unfunny film from Woody Allen’s seemingly interminable late period

An adaptation which brings out the worst in Philip Roth’s novel