Heaven Can Wait

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…

Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career and Alexander Payne delivers on the promise of Citizen Ruth and Election

And here comes yet another baby-boomer with a lingering grudge against daddy. Stop the presses!

An often-moving fictional account of a real event in World War I suffers from the same fault it criticizes in those who led their countries into war

An often funny revenge fantasy for wronged women which either doesn’t know about or can’t allow itself to show its more serious side

A moving and beautiful portrait of the natural bond between teacher and pupils that is also a stealth critique of today’s educational orthodoxy