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Religious wildcatters and spiritual entrepreneurs have long been a part of the American story. It was only a matter of time before someone brought the Holocaust into the show

A highly watchable but somewhat dubious lesson in how not to be a victim — or at least not a victim of fate

An occasionally amusing parable of guilt and forgiveness whose setting in small-town America, like the prejudices of its author, does it no favors

Woody Allen’s decline into self-parody accelerates

Inventing the Abbotts directed by Pat O’Connor from a story by Sue Miller is set in the 1950s and runs through the usual movie and journalistic clichés about that era as a time of “innocence.” In addition to authentic cars and clothes and appliances and TV shows (surprisingly, there is little period rock ‘n’ roll),…

More evidence, if evidence were needed, that the movies are not very good at re-imagining the myths and legends of the past, especially not Biblical ones