Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

Sensitive writers rendered dysfunctional by their dysfunctional families — hm, where have we heard something like that before?

Ben Stiller is at his best when playing unlikeable characters. He shouldn’t be trying to soften them and make them more likeable.

Charles Darwin re-imagined by today’s progressive-minded atheists as the patron saint of their cause

Like Waiting for Guffman, which Christopher Guest directed and starred in four years ago, his new movie, Best in Show is painfully funny. Truly funny and truly painful. And very much in the same way too—in the way, that is, that toe-curling embarrassment is painful if you are involved in it and funny if you…

An interesting updating of Henry James’s novel chiefly worth seeing for the performance of its title character

A not-uninteresting first feature from Dylan Kidd is a little too glib about providing its hero with the fixings for a moral makeover, but, all the same, it’s hard not to like him.