In Which We Serve (1942)

Four Days in September by the Brazilian director Bruno Barreto has about it the sepia tones of an old photograph. How strange people were in those far off days of 1969, and what strange things they did. Much credit is due to Barreto, himself a former leftist, for the skill and artistic restraint involved in…

This film by Peter Hedges tries hard to be both charming and uplifting but doesn’t quite succeed in being either

A slacker comedy with some tentative and swiftly-disregarded pretensions to seriousness

A documentary about a man who lost his memory gradually turns into a celebration of his right to self-reinvention

The first crime of Father Amaro, it seems, was in his ever allowing himself to get mixed up with that gang of mobsters known as the Roman Catholic Church

The X-Files, directed by Rob Bowman (no relation) and written by the series’s creator, Chris Carter, gives us an example of the perfect post-modern movie, because it presents to us a non-functional conspiracy. That is to say, the conspiracy is detached from its objective, or else the objective is so obscure that it remains unclear…