Defending Your Life

A brilliantly conceived and executed Argentinian “sting” is only bettered by the movie that describes it.

The Family Man, written by David Diamond and David Weissman and directed by Brett Ratner, is an attempt at a reverse It’s a Wonderful Life for the Christmases of the new millennium. Jack Campbell (Nicholas Cage) is a high-flying Wall Street whiz kid and swinging bachelor whose angel (played by Don Cheadle) lets him see…

The new nukes-on-the-loose action thriller, The Peacemaker, tells us in its opening credits that it was directed by Mimi Leder, but as the first and presumably showcase cinematic product of the Spielberg-Katzenberg-Geffen “Dreamworks” studio, it has all the earmarks of a Spielbergian extravaganza. There are advantages and disadvantages to the fact. Or, really, one advantage…

A delightful and not entirely politically correct movie about growing up as a Catholic schoolgirl in 2002-2003

A visual feast designed to make more palatable the movie’s dubious theology.

The title is a lie. The only temptation fought with in this movie is the temptation to be pious and virtuous.