In Which We Serve (1942)
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The Eel, directed by Shohei Imamura, is like so many Japanese films a visual feast which works less well as a naturalistic drama than as a sort of moral parable, shot through with significant symbolism in mostly beautiful pictures. The story is of a midlevel Japanese “salaryman” called Yamashita (Koji Yakusho, who made such an…
A silly attempt to re-imagine Jane Austen as a romance novelist of our own time inexplicably marooned in the 18th century
A feeble parody of the old-time Hollywood musical that appears to have wowed critics not in spite of but because of all the ways it falls short of its original
A charming combination of prison flick and musical comedy is the best thing on offer this week.
A moving portrayal of a little-known passage of recent history which even manages to make us forget why it was, until now, little known
All by itself, X-men seems to have turned around Hollywood’s summer, earning $57.5 million in its opening weekend (more than any other July film, ever) and making a lacklustre box office into something not far short of boffo. As to an adult sensibility (but who has one of those anymore?) this techno-fantasy may look all…
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