Pursuit of Happyness, The

An always-watchable, sometimes moving account of nine women coming to terms with loss

Neil LaBute’s attempt at a real romance goes — perhaps unsurprisingly — horribly wrong.

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A lovely film about an American con-man and one of his dupes who find a spooky kind of redemption in each other

If you could legitimately take, as some reviewers seem illegitimately to have done, the final words of the Pakistani convenience store clerk, Nazir Chowdray (Ajay Naidu), in SubUrbia as the real direction in which the film is heading, it would not have been at all a bad picture — though written by Eric Bogosian (from…

The 13th Warrior, directed by John McTiernan, is a Hollywoodification of Michael Crichton’s attempt to re- imagine Beowulf in his novel, Eaters of the Dead, with the help of a 10th century Arabic account of adventures in Central Asia. It was Kipling who pioneered this sort of thing in his brilliant story, “The Knife and…