Invasion of the Body Snatchers

Always worth watching, the Coen Brothers tell us, as they have done so often in the past, that truth is elusive and life is absurd. But this is old news.

Ma Vie en Rose by Alain Berliner manages to be a charming film, rather in the manner of the upbeat and jokey postmodernism of Berliner’s fellow Belgian, Jaco Van Dormael. Enjoyable as it is in many ways, however, one can never quite lose the sense of being got at by—that rare thing—a perfectly amiable propagandist…

In real life, recovery from addiction is a great and inspiring thing; in the movies not so much

A brutish husband, two funny girlfriends, a handsome doctor, folksy Andy Griffith and pie — could this be a recipe for a chick flick?

A girl who pretends to be deaf and a real bad dad don’t end up adding very much of interest to a routine high school melodrama

A pretty routine bit of Hollywood uplift in the sporting context which isn’t quite sure about what it really believes