Third Man, The

Another slick product of the contemporary movie business’s propaganda arm

An repellant and loathsome film about repellant and loathsome people that seeks to mine a mostly played-out seam of schlock and shock

Moralizing thieves seem to appeal to a Hispanic audience — rather than the merely immoral thieves who apparently appeal to the rest of us

An affecting exploration into a social problem which can only be made worse by being regarded as a social problem

Deconstructing Harry by Woody Allen is like every other Woody Allen movie: a succession of more or less good jokes bound together by an essentially puerile fantasy. Or, in this case, a succession of interlocking fantasies. Harry Block (Mr Allen) is a novelist who is forever mining his chaotic private life for material for his…

The Beach by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting) is obviously le dernier cri in hip, but it is a mess of a movie—sort of Lord of the Flies meets Blue Lagoon. In short, it doesn’t know where it’s going. On the one hand it very much likes the idea of the hippie colony on an almost inaccessible…