Full Metal Jacket (1987)

Wide Awake, directed by M. Night Shyamalan, must have attracted its stars — Denis Leary, Dana Delaney and Rosie O’Donnell, all of whom are badly miscast — because it tells what purports to be a heartwarming story of a kid in Catholic school, presumably of Irish extraction, who has to come to terms with his…

Imagine a more up-to-date, slick-looking Norwegian version of a “Twilight Zone” episode

A movie about the war in Iraq and the men who fight it whose superiority to the other movies about the war is mostly owing to how bad they are

An often-funny but too-bland and predictable romantic comedy that can’t find a way to live up to its potential

This hagiography of a pornographer is a perfect summing up of the culture of Hollywood today

Jerry Springer in ‘Ringmaster,’ directed by Neil Abramson and written by Jon Bernstein, stars Jerry Springer as the host of a daytime talk show very much like “The Jerry Springer Show”—only a disclaimer at the end informs us that this Jerry and that Jerry have nothing to do with one another. It is the downmarket…