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[See “Entry from July 1, 2009” under “My Diary”]
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Did Mr Rogers’s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters?
The comic insight at the heart of Jay Roach’s Meet the Parents lies in establishing the nexus between humorlessness, paranoia and sentimentality in Robert De Niro’s portrayal of every bachelor’s nightmare of the father of his intended. The late Adolf Hitler, I believe, had the same three qualities, though this is not a comparison in…
Passion of Mind is the first film in English of Alain Berliner, the director of the charmingly disturbing or, disturbingly charming, Belgian film Ma Vie en Rose. Perhaps it was decided that for his American debut he needed to find his audience with the help of a star of the stature of Demi Moore. Similar…
Carl Franklin’s — and Denzel Washington’s — best movie since Devil in a Blue Dress is a thriller that really thrills
A ridiculous bit of wish-fulfilment nevertheless suggests that family values may no longer be considered box-office poison.
A touching and well-made movie from India whose motto, worthy of emulation by Hollywood, is "less is more"
