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The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over
The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice
The Boxer by Jim Sheridan deserves some praise for being one of the very few among the spate of recent movies about “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland (including Sheridan’s own) that actually tries to depict the I.R.A. as it is and not with the romantic patina of Michael Collins or, most recently, The Jackal. But…
A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself
Perhaps not the best of the recent crop of movies about grief, this Israeli film is nevertheless very watchable
Dr. T. and the Women is a typical Robert Altman film in being sprawling and incoherent and full of more or less purposeless and unresolved activity, but also typical in showing flashes of brilliance. Nor does it surprise that Altman is going in for a lot of sentimentalizing about women these days, since it gives…
The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over
The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice
The Boxer by Jim Sheridan deserves some praise for being one of the very few among the spate of recent movies about “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland (including Sheridan’s own) that actually tries to depict the I.R.A. as it is and not with the romantic patina of Michael Collins or, most recently, The Jackal. But…
A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself
Perhaps not the best of the recent crop of movies about grief, this Israeli film is nevertheless very watchable
Dr. T. and the Women is a typical Robert Altman film in being sprawling and incoherent and full of more or less purposeless and unresolved activity, but also typical in showing flashes of brilliance. Nor does it surprise that Altman is going in for a lot of sentimentalizing about women these days, since it gives…
The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over
The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice
The Boxer by Jim Sheridan deserves some praise for being one of the very few among the spate of recent movies about “the Troubles” in Northern Ireland (including Sheridan’s own) that actually tries to depict the I.R.A. as it is and not with the romantic patina of Michael Collins or, most recently, The Jackal. But…
A portrait of spiritual and emotional emptiness among the academic classes — that may or may not be spiritually and emotionally empty itself
Perhaps not the best of the recent crop of movies about grief, this Israeli film is nevertheless very watchable
Dr. T. and the Women is a typical Robert Altman film in being sprawling and incoherent and full of more or less purposeless and unresolved activity, but also typical in showing flashes of brilliance. Nor does it surprise that Altman is going in for a lot of sentimentalizing about women these days, since it gives…