Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

One of the great films of the last half century keeps being re-made, each time more memorably and more resonantly than the last

A charming, unpretentious little movie from Mexico that gradually reveals to us hidden depths and a surprising emotional power

A teenage sexual fantasy almost rises above its sordid and ridiculous premiss, but it finally falls victim to cliché.

I tried very hard to like A Simple Plan, written by Scott B.Smith and directed by Sam (Evil Dead) Raimi, but I was only partly successful. The movie seems to have been heavily influenced by Fargo, right down to the vast and snowy prairie landscapes and the unexpectedly satisfying moralism of the ending, and, insofar…

A feeble parody of the old-time Hollywood musical that appears to have wowed critics not in spite of but because of all the ways it falls short of its original