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The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over

A movie about forgiveness is itself a bit hard to forgive

Run Lola Run, written and directed by Tom Tykwer, is the kind of film for which critics must have invented the word “stylish.” It is so stylish in fact that it thinks it has nothing to do but to be stylish. And indeed many critics seem to have forgiven it all its many little incoherences…

This film by Peter Hedges tries hard to be both charming and uplifting but doesn’t quite succeed in being either

A Chef in Love (or, to give it its French title, Le Mille et Un Recettes d’un Cuisinier Amoureux) by Nana Djordjadze is a Franco-Georgian film which takes the fast-track to success by foreign language films: include lots of food. Set in the Caucasus in 1920, it is the story of a French chef, Pascal…

An engrossing French thriller that almost succeeds in reminding us of Hollywood’s great days — now, alas, long past