Act of Valor

Oh dear. One movie at a time, Mr Shyamalan!

Another ghetto morality play, set in New Mexico, urging us to stay out of jail. Jail is very bad for you. Who knew?

Yet another nostalgic invocation of the hippie dream, though at least this one doesn’t pretend to be sexually innocent

An often funny revenge fantasy for wronged women which either doesn’t know about or can’t allow itself to show its more serious side

Jerry Springer in ‘Ringmaster,’ directed by Neil Abramson and written by Jon Bernstein, stars Jerry Springer as the host of a daytime talk show very much like “The Jerry Springer Show”—only a disclaimer at the end informs us that this Jerry and that Jerry have nothing to do with one another. It is the downmarket…

Atom Egoyan’s curiously unemotional re-telling of the story of the Armenian massacres of 1915 loses itself in its inability to tear itself away from the present day.