Hurt Locker, The (2008)

Part romance, part lurid soap opera and part picture postcard of old Japan, this film slips just enough of the real thing past its inevitable Hollywoodification to make it worth seeing

Tommy Lee Jones is hunting in the woods for a chicken-loving, people-hating serial killer that — gasp! — he trained. What’s not to like? Read on.

A charmless, tedious and unfunny movie that cultivates an image of — of all things — intelligence

Even the kids who love this stuff might want to start thinking about putting away childish things

The most destructive technology yet devised by the mind of man — not the airplane but the movie about the airplane

Come to think of it, the capacity of Scott’s “minist’ring angel” to be beastly to her menfolk and even more beastly to other women has always been comic.