Remember the Night (1940)

Another ersatz film noir “based on fact” which uses its period setting as an excuse for graphic scenes of violence

Hollywood has been insulting adult intelligence for years, but this movie is an insult even to teenage intelligence.

Roman Polanski makes a political movie for the people — unfortunately, there are a lot of them, particularly in Europe — whose politics are just like his

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The Mighty directed by Peter Chelsom and based on the novel by Rodman Philbrick, is at least an improvement annoying Simon Birch of last month, though it uses essentially the same device: doomed crippled kid who is nevertheless smart as a whip (I have known a lot of crippled kids, by the way, and never…

A feel-bad movie about one of the world’s more intractable crisis points which unwittingly illustrates the inadequacies of the progressive approach to such problems