They Were Expendable (1945)

A ridiculous bit of wish-fulfilment nevertheless suggests that family values may no longer be considered box-office poison.

Those who remember fondly Francis Veber’s The Dinner Game from the summer before last may be a bit disappointed in Le Placard (The Closet)—which has a lot of the earlier film’s comic invention but also, to those of us who are accustomed to Hollywood-style propaganda, enough of an ideological edge to give it an unbalancing…

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A funny but also depressing take on the lives of women of the Upper West Side

There are a lot of things wrong with Howard Deutch’s new film, The Replacements, beginning with the fact that it is a football movie and therefore, in my view, extremely limited in its scope for originality. But it is just about worth seeing. There are some good jokes — I especially liked the one where…

Tommy Lee Jones is hunting in the woods for a chicken-loving, people-hating serial killer that — gasp! — he trained. What’s not to like? Read on.