Heaven Can Wait

A very watchable film with a highly unoriginal Big Idea about the origins of war and violence

An unforgettable docu-drama about a climbing accident in the Andes nearly 20 years ago which is still being talked about among mountaineers

Bruce Beresford does so many things so well that he should by rights be one of the best directors of our time. But there is a certain coarseness to his sensibility, a weakness for the sentimental cliché, which often comes near to vitiating even his best work. His latest film, Paradise Road, though I don’t…

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The puzzling thing about Steven Soderbergh’s new film, The Limey, is the very thing he puts to the fore in it, namely the national origin of its central character. What has that got to do with the basic story of an ex-con who’s “not from around here” pursuing the man he believes to be his…

Nature documentaries have never been so gorgeous — but Jacques Perrin’s film would have been no less so with some added documentary-style touches