Between Two Worlds

Say what you like about the French, they’re better than we are at making neurosis interesting

Pushing Tin, directed by Mike Newell, is a reminder that our popular culture wants it both ways. On the one hand it thrives, as entertainment has always done, on the competition of macho men to see who is stronger, smarter, quicker or more dexterous. On the other hand it feels constrained to deplore such competition…

Ya Ya? Oh No! It’s yet another chapter in the continuing soap opera of Strong Southern Women and their heroic dysfunctions.

Another sloppy, self-indulgent and unfunny film from Woody Allen’s seemingly interminable late period

A touching documentary portrait of a not-quite tragic fall from what passes these days for greatness

An awful movie on a subject that deserves — and has received — a lot better