Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

In the first paragraph of his review, of Peter and Bobby Farrelly’s movie, There’s Something about Mary, Stephen Hunter of the Washington Post suggests that the picture is not only brilliantly funny but also one in the eye of those carping critics (presumably those with “artistic” pretensions) who don’t believe that “it is enough for…

A never-less-than-watchable film about the immigrant experience in America that diminishes its own considerable power with touches of magic realism

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An absurd historical fantasy that accomplishes the impossible by making even its fellow Shakespeare authorship cranks look good by comparison

A haunting documentary that confronts some Khmer Rouge thugs with their victims in an attempt to trace the origins of evil

Regeneration directed by Gillies Mackinnon from a screenplay by Allan Scott and based on the novel by Pat Barker is another retelling of the great left wing myth to come out of the Great War: that it was all the generals’ fault. “Half the seed of Europe,” to use Wilfred Owen’s angry poetic formulation, were…