King’s Row (1942)

There is more than a hint of political correctness about this film’s self-discoveries, which the audience will have figured out long before the characters do

Cleverness and humor in the manipulation of absurdity can only take you so far. Just about this far, in fact.

You’ve got to hand it to Nicole Kassell and Kevin Bacon, for in making a hero of a child molester they haven’t taken the easy way to pleasing audiences

Conspiracy Theory, written by Brian Helgeland and directed by Richard Donner, attempts to do for lunatics what movies like The Shawshank Redemption tried to do for convicts—that is to sanitize them and make them lovable victims of government and society instead of dangerous social malcontents. Charming, blue-eyed Mel Gibson plays Jerry, a middle aged New…

Let me get this straight. We’re supposed to sympathize with this guy for wanting to blow himself up along with a bunch of people he doesn’t even know?

A moving portrayal of a little-known passage of recent history which even manages to make us forget why it was, until now, little known