Breach

A Western’s themes and a Western’s morality work surprisingly well among Britons of the Midlands and the lower-mid social status

Torn between thuggery and a career as a classical pianist? You must be French. Yet this Frenchman began life as Harvey Keitel

Are Americans getting to be the good guys in the movies once again? Well, maybe not altogether so.

Earlier this year, in a review of Panic by Henry Bromell, I observed that it was possible to appreciate a film which is an impressive bit of propaganda for a political position with which you profoundly disagree. Just think of Leni Riefenstahl’s The Triumph of the Will. Nowadays, the most assiduous ideologues among film-makers are…

Here are the good things about Traffic, Steven Soderbergh’s new and ambitious — and, indeed, epic-scale movie treatment of what is still here and there called the “drug war.” It does not glamorize drug taking, or drug supplying, though about a third of it deals with the first and about two- thirds with the second. Nor does it…

A charming and funny moral tale which rises above its lightness and slightness to entertain as the movies used to entertain