Don't Bother
[See “Frozen in Ideological Time” in The American Spectator of January-February, 2014 under “Articles”]
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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.
Not One Less, directed by Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red Lantern etc) is a propaganda film, a sad come-down for a very talented guy, I think—though its portrait of life among some of the poorest villages of China today is brilliantly rendered and memorably affecting. Here, too, is truth, and this is not…
Though message-laden and inclined to a facile view of international politics, this is a fresh and funny look at the travails of family life
The comic foundations of the original Barbershop are not sturdy enough to bear the weight of another such edifice
Ma Vie en Rose by Alain Berliner manages to be a charming film, rather in the manner of the upbeat and jokey postmodernism of Berliner’s fellow Belgian, Jaco Van Dormael. Enjoyable as it is in many ways, however, one can never quite lose the sense of being got at by—that rare thing—a perfectly amiable propagandist…
Almost a pastiche of a Truffaut-like coming of age picture, but without Truffaut’s magic touch
