Place in the Sun, A

Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon is worth seeing for two reasons. One is the remarkable performance of Jim Carrey as the late comic and performance artist (as we should call him today), Andy Kaufman. I confess that I have always numbered myself among the Carrey-skeptics, and cannot remember a single performance of his that…

You’ve got to hand it to Nicole Kassell and Kevin Bacon, for in making a hero of a child molester they haven’t taken the easy way to pleasing audiences

A silly attempt to re-imagine Jane Austen as a romance novelist of our own time inexplicably marooned in the 18^th century

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An unfunny comedy whose reason for being appears to be a celebration of the extravagant self-pity of its central character

A sort of post-modern tragedy — if that’s not a contradiction in terms — that is too faithful to the novel but will probably win lots of Oscars for it