Defending Your Life

Liar Liar is another high-concept movie, this one directed by Tom Shadyac, who also directed Jim Carrey’s breakthrough film, Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Here Carrey appears as Fletcher Reede, a shyster lawyer whose five year old son, Max (Justin Cooper) makes a birthday wish that, just for one day, his father cannot tell a lie….

A beautiful and profound meditation on the claims of a very little, very fragile human life upon eternity

An engrossing French thriller that almost succeeds in reminding us of Hollywood’s great days — now, alas, long past

Arguing the World, a documentary directed by Joseph Dorman, is what a documentary should be. That is, it persuasively re-creates a historical milieu—in this case intellectual life in post-War New York—by telling a particular story. The story is that of City College in the 1930s and 1940s, known as “the Jewish Harvard,” where the sons…

Kids whose only knowledge of World War II comes from the movies will be relieved to learn it was a struggle between the plucky pigeons of Britain and the fearsome falcons of the Third Reich

Is it unreasonable to care about Clint Eastwood’s mild falsification of what actually happened after "the Miracle on the Hudson"?