King’s Row (1942)
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Mystery, Alaska, directed by Jay Roach, aspires to be the Rocky of hockey. A small-town hockey team from Alaska (surely they must mean Canada?) takes on the mighty New York Rangers on the neighborhood ice and, against all expectations, goes the distance with them. If you get a lump in your throat when Rocky staggers…
A bleak, Third World love story that requires — but does not necessarily repay — a good deal of patience
A funny but pointless movie that has already died the death at the box office. Why is that, I wonder?
Another French paean to amour fou and the existential sainthood appertaining to madmen and criminals — so what’s not to like?
Moralizing thieves seem to appeal to a Hispanic audience — rather than the merely immoral thieves who apparently appeal to the rest of us