Defending Your Life

This silly and mindless remake of an American classic is a huge disappointment

Breakdown by Jonathan Mostow is a superior sort of thriller that is a step in the right direction after recent Hollywood examples of the genre—that is, in the direction of the things that ordinary, reasonable people really do fear. Which is to say not unbelievably big Amazonian snakes or volcanos erupting in downtown Los Angeles…

Love and Death on Long Island, directed by Richard Kwietniowski from a novel by Gilbert Adair, is not really about death. Its title puns on the name of its principal character, played by John Hurt, who is called Giles De’Ath. But it might as well have been called De’Ath in Venice, since it is all…

Ours is a scary old world, all right, and we cling to our toys like children — but this is a point that it is way too easy to overdemonstrate.

A fast-moving thriller that is all slick surface and superheroic action with nothing much else to recommend it, apart from its apology for torture

Hollywood’s take on the financial crisis of 2008. Guess who gets the blame.