Act of Valor

A movie that prompts the reflection that the therapeutic romance isn’t really romantic at all

What happens when anything can happen? Pretty much nothing. Or at least nothing that anyone needs to care about

Are Americans getting to be the good guys in the movies once again? Well, maybe not altogether so.

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A patriotic-spirited account of the US hockey team’s victory over the Russians in 1980 is marred by the gloomy backdrop of Jimmy Carter’s “malaise”

What I liked about Pollock, directed by and starring Ed Harris, is that it really does convey an impression of what a nasty man Jackson Pollock must have been—not, that is, nasty in the mealy-mouthed, surreptitious, hypocritical way that people are generally nasty these days but nasty in that old-fashioned, full-bore, unashamed way that people…