Mr Blandings Builds His Dream House

An immensely moving account of goodness, holiness and Christian martyrdom — remember that? — amid a political landscape much like our own

A not-uninteresting first feature from Dylan Kidd is a little too glib about providing its hero with the fixings for a moral makeover, but, all the same, it’s hard not to like him.

How on earth did Ron Howard hope to succeed where Peter Weir failed? Hubris, I suppose. Ron Howard’s done a guest shot on “The Simpsons” (along with those other giants of the silver screen, Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger) and Peter Weir hasn’t. But for those of us not giddy with success, however, the idea…

A gripping and well-made Italian film that never quite gets around to answering the biggest of the questions it raises

I Love You, Don’t Touch Me is a charming little film by Julie Davis that has intelligence, wit, humor, good acting, good writing, good music and almost all things going for it —apart from being facile and unconvincing in its main point. This is that, as the gorgeous heroine, Katie (Marla Schaffel)—who is of course…

It’s propaganda for the right and the true and the good — but it’s still propaganda