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The fairy-tale implications of title of The Princess and the Warrior (or, with German logic, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin), written and directed by Tom Tykwer, is both misleading and not. The film is set in the present day, in Wuppertal, Germany, and is told realistically — without even the fractured time scheme of Tykwer’s…

Yet another example of gore, black humor and special effects that only has contempt for the non-special but desirable effect of explaining what is going on

The now familiar practice of making machines into the heroes of our favorite technological romances has taken another leap forward.

Set, like Rory O’Shea Was Here, in a nursing home, Elliot Greenbaum’s debut is a young man’s film but still worth seeing.

Flawless, written and directed by Joel Schumacher, is an odd-couple picture featuring Robert DeNiro as a retired policeman and security guard called Walt who suffers a stroke and turns for rehabilitative help to his neighbor, a “female impersonator” (as he prefers to call it) and cross-dresser called Rusty (Philip Seymour Hoffman). Rusty is to teach…

Iris Murdoch? Oh, yeah. She was that writer who got Alzheimer’s, wasn’t she?