Remember the Night (1940)

Ours is a scary old world, all right, and we cling to our toys like children — but this is a point that it is way too easy to overdemonstrate.

A movie to be applauded for going against the grain of the usual Hollywood politics but, alas, not a very well-made one

Here’s a good example of what happens when talented and amusing people get together to air their prejudices without bothering about what those who are opposed to them really think

Another immensely watchable film from Iran, in spite a slight tendency to promote civic responsibility

Hurlyburly directed by Anthony Drazan and written (from his stageplay) by David Rabe has an all-star cast, but it cannot escape from the poverty of its script, in which nothing very much happens (people come and go) and all the characters talk exactly alike—that is in a kind of souped-up psychobabble with an occasionally Pinterian…

A throwback to the days when Hollywood went in for moralism, this movie is marred by its treatment of mental illness