Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House

The first crime of Father Amaro, it seems, was in his ever allowing himself to get mixed up with that gang of mobsters known as the Roman Catholic Church

One of those rare movies that manages to improve on an already fine fictional original

Even raw propaganda can do the rounds of the documentary circuit, apparently, so long as it is anti-American propaganda

Poets who die young are themselves a highly poetical subject, as Chatterton, Byron, Shelley and Keats could attest — but perhaps they’re less interesting in the movies

Shall We Dance? by Masayuki Suo is a Japanese film with all the charm and delicacy of the best French movies. It surprises and delights with the subtlety of its observation and the skill of its construction, and it moved me deeply at several points. Koji Yakusyo stars as Mr Sugiyama, a rumpled and tired-…

Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion by David Mirkin seems to be a sort of female version of Dumb and Dumber about two dumb blondes, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow), who have lived together since high school, had no success to speak of, but return to their tenth reunion determined to pretend to…