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Amazing! An old-fashioned drama of honor and faith and romance and swordplay not intended to send these things up.
Going All the Way, directed by Mark Pellington, to a screenplay adapted by Dan Wakefield from his own novel is yet another among the plethora of recent cinematic evocations of the 1950s—and one which, I would have thought, might have elicited one or two protests from women because of the way that it treats them…
An inspirational tribute to European unity from a director who is clearly capable of better things
A Brazilian revenge-drama is too portentous and fraught with religious significance for all but the most militant of atheists to appreciate
So far, the strongest contender for worst movie of the year has got to be Stigmata, written by Tom Lazarus and Rick Ramage and directed by Rupert Wainwright. Not only does it make explicit — and almost unbelievably crass — Hollywood’s characteristically anti-religious bent, but its advocacy of an alternative spirituality is laughably clumsy, a…
A heart-warming tale of exile and loss and reconciliation