Black Hawk Down (2001)
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A movie about a horse with the heart of a champion doesn’t have a heart of its own
Un Air de Famille, directed by Cédric Klapisch (While the Cat’s Away) from an original play by Agnès Jaoui and Jean-Pierre Bacri, is enormous fun, and I highly recommend it if you are lucky enough to find it opening in your neighborhood. Denis (Jean-Pierre Darroussin) is having affair with Betty (Miss Jaoui) while working for…
Its heart is in the right place, but the inspirational uplift looks just a bit artificial
Chasing Amy is another slacker movie and thus another piece of redundant evidence that America has become far richer than is good for it. Boys the age of this film’s director, Kevin Smith, whose earlier efforts are Clerks and Mall Rats, ought to be doing their army basic training, or serving as apprentices at some…
A feel-good celebration of the gay agenda and in particular the fundamental principle that no obligation must be allowed to take precedence over the free expression of one’s sexual nature
After 50 years, the re-make of a classic western provides us with a pretty accurate gauge of the degree to which the culture has been debased since 1957