Black Hawk Down (2001)

Jack Nicholson gives the performance of his career and Alexander Payne delivers on the promise of Citizen Ruth and Election

A parable or fairy tale of social renewal from the master cinematic chronicler of the Urban Haute Bourgeoisie

A frankly mendacious and distorted account of the life and innovations of the founder of Facebook — who may or may not care

Alice et Martin, directed and co-written by André Techiné, is an unconventional romance of a type that the French are so good at, but it is also a complex psychological drama which, I think, loses itself in its own complexities. At the level of the cinematic or dramatic detail it is a fine film. The…

The Postman by Kevin Costner was made about 25 years too late. This is the kind of thing that would have seemed “deep,” or possibly “heavy” to the drugged-out hippies of the Vietnam era, but is just laughable now. Even the audience of film critics I saw it with laughed out loud at several of…

A well-made film that teaches an obnoxious lesson