Heaven Can Wait

A not-uninteresting first feature from Dylan Kidd is a little too glib about providing its hero with the fixings for a moral makeover, but, all the same, it’s hard not to like him.

A feminist fairy-tale can only succeed, one suspects, to the extent that it marginalizes its feminism.

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Love is the Devil written and directed by John Maybury, stars Derek Jacobi as Francis Bacon, the pioneer of the skull-beneath-the-skin school of British art. Because he was forbidden by keepers of the Bacon artistic estate to show actual Bacon canvases on screen, Maybury, who is himself a painter, has had to confine himself to…

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Liberal self-congratulation is the real point of this unbelievable yarn about the bad old days in Mississippi