Fargo

I should say that I have not seen the original film of 1968 which inspired the remake of Sweet November, written by Kurt Voelker and directed by Pat O’Connor. But I have seen so many films so much like it — admittedly not many of them recently — that the remake looks very familiar indeed….

Thieves by André Téchiné, is one of those films where the artistic means completely overpower the narrative ends. Here we have multiple narrators, shifts backward and forward in time, several brooding, complex, mysterious characters and a tangle of unexplained plot details trailing off into philosophical conversations full of gnomic utterance. And all for what? To…

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A movie about self-satisfaction that is itself way too self-satisfied to have anything very interesting to say

A bit of determined uplift that would be more effective if it didn’t try so hard

A teenage sexual fantasy almost rises above its sordid and ridiculous premiss, but it finally falls victim to cliché.