Badlands (1973)

Re-make fever strikes again, and with even more lamentable results than usual. Will someone please stop Kenneth Branagh before he directs again?

The joke that gives As Good As It Gets its title is the best thing in the picture. Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson), a successful novelist, suffers from obsessive-compulsive disorder which manifests itself in an insane punctiliousness about rituals, not stepping on cracks in the sidewalk, excessive hand-washing and the like. When his routine is disrupted…

Jane Austen as seen by Whit Stillman — who doesn’t quite see all of her

A moving account of the kidnap and murder of Daniel Pearl in 2002 which is, nevertheless, a little too self-regarding

There is more than a hint of political correctness about this film’s self-discoveries, which the audience will have figured out long before the characters do

Middle-aged women become overnight celebrities by taking their clothes off. Phooahh! That’s what I call empowerment