Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

Fine performances by its two principal actors are not enough in the end to make this movie very interesting

Adrian Lyne is shockingly unfaithful to Claude Chabrol’s masterpiece, La Femme Infidèle, giving adultery the Oprah treatment.

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

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It is fascinating how, although Hollywood has implicitly believed in every crackpot conspiracy theory for decades and has been willing to attribute to the democratically elected government of the United States any and all perfidies, it retains a sentimental attachment to the idea of the presidency. The image of the good king dies hard in…

A brilliantly conceived and executed Argentinian “sting” is only bettered by the movie that describes it.