Badlands (1973)

It is, I believe, always a mistake to criticize a movie for not being the book it is based on—or, indeed, for not being anything at all. Every artist deserves the courtesy of being assessed on the basis of what he tried to do and not on that of what he didn’t try to do….

Anastasia, made for Fox by the disaffected Disney animators Don Bluth and Gary Goldman was deeply depressing for me to watch—not because it is shoddy filmmaking but because there is so much obvious talent here employed in falsifying reality for no good reason. Of course it doesn’t do for one to be too much the…

A sci-fi comedy that neglects to be funny

Is it possible for a man to have friends without regressing to boyhood? Not according to this unfunny comedy

Trust Merchant-Ivory to find a way to transform the elegant and the sophisticated into the banal