Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

Living Out Loud, written and directed by Richard LaGravenese is a handsome tribute to a charming woman, but it has no idea where it is going. Or rather: it knows where it wants to go, which is in the direction of a romantic rescue, but hasn’t got the nerve to go there. The story concerns…

As Enchanted April showed a few years ago, Italy is the promised land for the cold, sexually-repressed, work- obsessed Englishman or, more likely, Englishwoman. At least it is for the English who imagine themselves as having been kitted out by their climate or their religion or their national character with such a load of what…

A new Forrest Gump meets Memento, though this is worse than either. Of course it is festooned with Academy Award nominations

A bit of pro-abortion propaganda that can’t stick to propaganda — and so manages to rise above its ideology to near greatness

A paean to the sunshine and easy living of Provence inspired by Peter Mayle which stumbles in the attempt to turn itself into a romantic comedy

Orson Welles’s Touch of Evil, made in1957 and now restored according to a memo of protest Welles wrote to Universal after they butchered the movie on release, may be the best B-picture ever made. Watching it today, you have to wonder if he knew what he was doing — which was anticipating the postmodern film…