Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A bleak and boring Finnish film that seeks to explore new realms of victimhood and alienation

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A touching and well-made movie from India whose motto, worthy of emulation by Hollywood, is "less is more"

A movie that is a very good example of its kind, even though its kind is not to this critic’s taste

Just another po mo fantasy? Just another superhero movie? I’m afraid so.

Idle Hands, directed by Rodman Flender (can there really be someone with such a name?), is another in the recent spate of teen movies. With what can only be considered predictable unsuccess, it tries to marry the old-fashioned, rather campy moralism of the old-time teen slasher movie with the hip, happenin’, po-mo wit of Scream….