They Were Expendable (1945)

Chris Rock’s adaptation of — of all people — Eric Rohmer is often funny but morally and dramatically incoherent.

You knew that Mulan, the latest extrusion from the Satanic Mills of the Disney animation shop, had reached its intended audience when you saw the headline of Janet Maslin’s review in the New York Times: “A Warrior, She Takes on Huns and Stereotypes.” Someone ought to do a study on what it is that makes…

Al Gore may turn out to be like Richard Nixon, as some are predicting, by running again in 2008, but Nixon was never this phony

An interesting French film that plays around with movie-stereotypes of the police, though it could do more to subvert them

Grown children moving back in with their parents create an inherently comic situation, but this movie also strikes a serious note

Come to think of it, the capacity of Scott’s “minist’ring angel” to be beastly to her menfolk and even more beastly to other women has always been comic.