Matter of Life and Death, A (Stairway to Heaven)

A Chef in Love (or, to give it its French title, Le Mille et Un Recettes d’un Cuisinier Amoureux) by Nana Djordjadze is a Franco-Georgian film which takes the fast-track to success by foreign language films: include lots of food. Set in the Caucasus in 1920, it is the story of a French chef, Pascal…

The problem isn’t that a 40-year-old woman seduces a 15-year-old boy, it’s that the seduction is not even considered morally problematical.

Play It To the Bone, directed by Ron Shelton, is a Woody Harrelson movie in every sense of the term — that is it is full of macho posturing at the same time that it attempts to make a joke (a rather tired joke by now, you might think) about male stupidity. This is how…

The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice

Costa-Gavras — with the help of Rolf Hochhuth — delivers a stinging indictment of the Catholic church’s part in the Holocaust. You were expecting, maybe, exoneration?

This is the best version of J.M. Barrie’s classic that there has ever been on film, and maybe in any medium