Third Man, The

Yet another exercise in anti-Americanism from Lars von Trier, though the propaganda gets sidetracked for most of the film by radical political philosophy

The Story of Us by Rob Reiner attempts to do for marital difficulty what his earlier film, When Harry Met Sally does for marital concord. Once again he uses the quasi- documentary technique, which is all mixed up with flashbacks of the history of a particular relationship. But you can’t help noticing that there is…

You know you’re in trouble with a movie that begins as the camera pans over the spines of a pile of highbrow books. Look at all those impressive authors’ names! Kierkegaard, Chekhov, Joyce, the Marquis de Sade. The selection is as telling (and is meant to be) as the books themselves about what it is…

A visually and dramatically impressive movie spoiled, in the end by a merely coy unwillingness to lift the artificial curtain between reality and unreality

If our moronic politicians were not as corrupt as three-day-old roadkill they wouldn’t need the media to tell them what to do

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