Three Days of the Condor

Though message-laden and inclined to a facile view of international politics, this is a fresh and funny look at the travails of family life

. . . And now Lewis Schwarzberg raises the question: does being a patriot require you to be a sentimentalist as well?

A gripping and well-made Italian film that never quite gets around to answering the biggest of the questions it raises

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Love Stinks is a nasty little film but, it might seem, something of a curiosity among recent Hollywood products in being entirely oriented toward the masculine point of view—or at least what people accustomed to the courtship rituals of late-20th century America will regard as such. For in truth, however revolting the male habit of…

This silly and mindless remake of an American classic is a huge disappointment