Pursuit of Happyness, The

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Nothing to Lose, written and directed by Steve Oedekerk, stars Tim Robbins as Nick, an advertising executive in Los Angeles who is carjacked by “T” (Martin Lawrence) while in a state of shock over his apparent discovery of his wife, Ann (Kelly Preston), in bed with his boss, Phil (Michael McKean). Sittiing at an intersection…

. . .and the bad guys live happily ever after with their ill-gotten gains. Ho-hum. What a cliché this is becoming.

A movie more notable for its ingenuity in adapting the conventions of film noir to a high school setting than for any more substantial merits

Beloved, from the novel by Toni Morrison and directed by Jonathan Demme, exploits the sufferings of black people under slavery on behalf of a radical feminism that is merely parasitical upon them. Blacks in general and black men in particular ought to resent having their own history hijacked in this way, and used in the…

A sharp satire of popular romanticism occasionally spills over into mere superciliousness.