Pursuit of Happyness, The

An interesting French film that plays around with movie-stereotypes of the police, though it could do more to subvert them

If this is how both sides in America have decided to do politics in the age of Trump, there’s not much point finding fault, is there?

In The Memory of a Killer, also known as The Alzheimer Case (De Zaak Alzheimer), Erik Van Looy has done a nice job of putting together an engaging, high-concept thriller. But once we’ve finished being caught up in it, we can’t help noticing that the high-concept pretty much goes to waste. It is this. A…

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A movie to promote the self-conceit of ageing hippies left behind by "history"

An interesting and authentic-looking account of men in combat in Afghanistan but one with a depressingly familiar anti-war subtext