Breach

More Christmas pandering to the kids. But do the kids really want to be pandered to?

Dr. T. and the Women is a typical Robert Altman film in being sprawling and incoherent and full of more or less purposeless and unresolved activity, but also typical in showing flashes of brilliance. Nor does it surprise that Altman is going in for a lot of sentimentalizing about women these days, since it gives…

A documentary about a man who lost his memory gradually turns into a celebration of his right to self-reinvention

. . .and the bad guys live happily ever after with their ill-gotten gains. Ho-hum. What a cliché this is becoming.

The key line in Mike Nichols’s adaptation of Joe Klein’s Primary Colors comes as Governor Jack Stanton (John Travolta), hot on the trail of the presidency after having just disposed of his last rival for the Democratic nomination, tries to persuade his idealistic young aide, Henry Burton (Adrian Lester), to stay with the campaign. Henry…

Mira Sorvino is the only triumphant thing about this inept adaptation of a Marivaux play.