King’s Row (1942)

Weird but not nearly weird enough to escape from being really boring and self-indulgent.

A movie about forgiveness is itself a bit hard to forgive

Smilla’s Sense of Snow, based on the novel by Peter Hoeg and directed by Bille August from a screenplay by Ann Biderman, is another film in which far too much is going on. At its most basic, it is about the search by the beautiful young Smilla (Julia Ormond) for the murderer of a six…

Slick, good-looking and utterly empty, Steven Zaillian’s vision of fascism come to America is laughable as politics and incoherent as cinema

Anyone who may still be treasuring fond memories of the 1950s has got to have a hard time of it in coming up against the tendency of late 20th century culture—which seems to be obsessed with the notion that that decade was a horrible time in America’s history. Well, you may think as I do…

A fitfully engaging thriller, as such things go these days, which falls apart in the last ten minutes