Three Days of the Condor

Character by Mike Van Diem, the Dutch winner of the Academy Award for best foreign film, is an astonishingly old fashioned picture, of a sort (here is a sobering thought) that simply could not be made in America today. Some representative of the feminist thought police would have got to it long before it was…

A devastating look at the corrupt political and educational establishment in New Jersey with powerful implications for other states

A fine war movie in spite of its being pitched to an audience with a pacifist predisposition

Martin Scorsese’s attempt to reconcile Christianity with multiculturalism is unlikely to impress anyone not already a convert to the latter

A harrowing but at the same time politically and morally tendentious retelling of events on board the fourth hijacked plane of 9/11, and the only one not to reach its objective.

If, as I believe, the new media aristocracy is essentially the aristocracy of feeling, then Johnny Depp is the crown prince. Was ever a face more perfectly constructed to express our turn-of-the-century ideal of a fine vulnerability, a noble sensitivity to every emotional breeze that ripples its surface? Unfortunately, with looks like his there are…