Fargo

One star for Ron Howard’s attempt to bring back an old-fashioned, unhip hero who seems to have come from the moon rather than New Jersey

Another amusingly incoherent apologia for prolonging male adolescence from the authors of Shaun of the Dead

Payback is directed by Brian Helgeland, who was one of the writers involved in L.A. Confidential, and, like that film, this one is an exercise in ersatz film noir. It is not exactly a remake of John Boorman’s Point Blank of 1967, but both are based on the same novel, The Hunter, which was written…

Another triumph of old-fashioned movie-making from the Czech authors of Kolya.

As usual, I’m afraid, science-fiction struggles vainly to escape from from its comic-book origins. Of course, most people won’t care about that. — From American Greatness of May 14, 2026

A charmer about the clash between teen-culture and reality whose cynicism and striving after hipness make it less good than it might have been