Third Man, The
[See discussion under “My Diary” for June 21, 2012]
[See discussion under “My Diary” for June 21, 2012]
A pack of left-wingers, familiar and unfamiliar, gets together to explain why the world needs to be protected from jobs and prosperity
Felicia’s Journey ought to have all the ingredients of a terrific movie. The novel by William Trevor on which it is based is first rate, a haunting study of the banality of evil that sticks in the mind long after it is read. The director, Atom Egoyan, did a fine job with Russell Banks’s The…
A strange movie from the Antipodes that tries to make a real-life act of mass murder into an object of beauty
A new Forrest Gump meets Memento, though this is worse than either. Of course it is festooned with Academy Award nominations