Stairway to Heaven (A Matter of Life and Death)

Fine performances by its two principal actors are not enough in the end to make this movie very interesting

An unfunny comedy whose reason for being appears to be a celebration of the extravagant self-pity of its central character

Boy! I thought this kind of crude, anti-American propaganda went out with the 1970s. A combination of Michael Moore and Bush-hatred appears to have brought it back

Whatever by Susan Skoog stars Liza Weil as Anna Stockard and Chad Morgan as her slutty friend Brenda, two high school girls in 1981 who do the standard “survivors” turn on behalf of the I-am-womanism of Ms Skoog. It follows the by-now familiar path of mythologizing and romanticising the sufferings of women, particularly young, post-pubertal…

The decision to make this based-on-fact saga into a thriller rather than a moral drama may have been arisen from the assumption that the audience wouldn’t know how the story comes out

Like so much of the rest of Neil LaBute’s output, this is a good movie in a bad — I think a very bad — cause.