Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A classic reissued in time for Mardi Gras remains well worth-seeing

More Christmas pandering to the kids. But do the kids really want to be pandered to?

Do old people still fall in love? For sure. But does anybody really want to watch them doing it?

Another political documentary conceived of not as investigation but as entertainment for those who already know all they care to know of its subject — except that it forgets to entertain

The portrait of a real-life French con-man who doesn’t succeed in being as charming as the film wants to portray him as being

Pavilion of Women is possibly the most perfectly awful movie I have seen this year. It is also a sad indication of the extent to which Hollywood, in seeking to demonstrate liberal good-will towards the People’s Republic of China, will swallow without a murmur propaganda that would be laughed off the stage if it came…