In Which We Serve (1942)

The Contender, written and directed by Rod Lurie, is yet another example of Hollywood’s idea of politics and even more bizarrely disconnected from reality than the director’s last outing, the appalling Deterrence which I reviewed in this space a few months ago. The film’s multiple absurdities and implausibilities would take too long to spell out…

Another cartoon hero of the silver screen appeals to adults who no longer feel any shame about enjoying kids’ movies — and so comes closer to making kids’ movies the only kind there are

La Ronde — or is it La Dolce Vita? — goes to college. Love may be elusive, but there is plenty of sex, booze and drugs to take your mind off the fact.

A bit of magical realism that is too heavy on the magic and too light on the realism

An animated comic-book about the American airmen of the First World War may appeal to young kids, but the brightest of them will be able to spot the phoniness

It is unfortunate for Stephen Frears’s The Van, based on the novel by Roddy Doyle, that it is coming out at a time when the economies not only of most of the countries where it will be seen but even that of perennially down-on- its-luck Ireland, where the film is set, are booming. The careful…