Breaking Away (1979)

This hagiography of a pornographer is a perfect summing up of the culture of Hollywood today

Another political documentary conceived of not as investigation but as entertainment for those who already know all they care to know of its subject — except that it forgets to entertain

The latest exercise in nihilism and theatre-of-the-absurd from the Coen Brothers

This month should be called easy morality month. No sooner do we get finished watching as Steven Spielberg proves to us with incredible but not untypical supererogation and at nearly two and a half hours length that slavery is iniquitous than we step into James Cameron’s Titanic and find that it takes nearly three and…

A funny and enjoyable movie but also one which loses a great opportunity through taking the movies too much at their own valuation

The hallmark of what is becoming the M. Night Shyamalan franchise is a movie starring Bruce Willis and a remarkable boy, set in Philadelphia with supernatural overtones and a surprise ending. The Sixth Sense (1999) may have sold more tickets on the strength of the mystery of its ending than any film since Psycho. So,…