Magnificent Ambersons, The (1942)

Rachel Boynton tells a good story — at least for political junkies — but tries to make it mean something it doesn’t

The arrogance of the evil Disney empire as it colonizes the world, both in space and in time, on behalf of spoiled American pre-teens continues. Characteristically, it has chosen for its next property to be conquered and laid waste a peculiarly inappropriate vehicle in Tarzan. The story of Tarzan, that is, absolutely depends on the…

A charming and funny moral tale which rises above its lightness and slightness to entertain as the movies used to entertain

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A couple of Israeli women soldiers have a hard time behaving in a soldierly fashion

Britain may be the only country in the world where it is still possible to make movies which glorify and romanticize and sentimentalize an old-fashioned view of masculinity—and have it come off looking progressive. Last spring we had Brassed Off which traded off its romantic notions of a stag-line of Yorkshire coal-miners down t’pit or…