Treasure of the Sierra Madre

What makes Tim Story’s film so good as moral instruction is what makes it, um, not quite so good as a movie.

An inspiring account of a coach’s dedication and a high school football team’s success which rather underplays its chief insight into the importance of character

The introductory disclaimer to the Dreamworks animated blockbuster, The Prince of Egypt (directed by Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner and Simon Wells) notifies us that the film has taken some “historical license” but that it has been “true to the essence, values and integrity” of the Exodus story. In literal terms this is true, but in…

An actor’s movie — written by his brother — to show off the considerable talents of Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Nil By Mouth by Gary Oldman is a surprise. You would think that Hollywood’s favorite maniac villain — along with Dennis Hopper and Christopher Walken — would have been infected with the Hollywood slicks, but here, in his first appearance as director, he is doing something altogether different — that is a sort of cinéma…