Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Like its predecessor, Toy Story 2 is a triumph of technology — the relatively new technology of computer animation — if not of moviemaking. In fact, as a kind of technological marvel it is naturally impervious to criticism on any merely airy-fairy, aesthetic grounds. Like the Bond films with which it might otherwise be thought…

An enjoyable account of Charles Dickens’s love affair with a much younger woman whose historicity, however, must remain largely speculative

Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is another chapter in the popular culture’s love affair with flashy intelligence—or at least the image of it. A gritty, black-and-white, low-budget version of Good Will Hunting, it does no better a job, however, at making such intelligence look real. For in addition to the usual mathematical parlor-tricks, this particular…

Liev Schreiber’s intermittently amusing adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel prunes the original a little too drastically

Like its predecessor, Toy Story 2 is a triumph of technology — the relatively new technology of computer animation — if not of moviemaking. In fact, as a kind of technological marvel it is naturally impervious to criticism on any merely airy-fairy, aesthetic grounds. Like the Bond films with which it might otherwise be thought…

An enjoyable account of Charles Dickens’s love affair with a much younger woman whose historicity, however, must remain largely speculative

Pi, directed by Darren Aronofsky, is another chapter in the popular culture’s love affair with flashy intelligence—or at least the image of it. A gritty, black-and-white, low-budget version of Good Will Hunting, it does no better a job, however, at making such intelligence look real. For in addition to the usual mathematical parlor-tricks, this particular…

Liev Schreiber’s intermittently amusing adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel prunes the original a little too drastically

Are even the French beginning to get a little tired of existential angst? See Yann Samuell’s movie and judge for yourself