Because I Said So

A touching and well-made movie from India whose motto, worthy of emulation by Hollywood, is "less is more"

A feminine, if not feminist, look at the world, but one that is beautiful to look at and that packs an emotional punch

A romantic murder mystery out of Argentina that has a lot to recommend it

A charming romance — as these things go nowadays — built along fairy tale lines which also appeals to the multiculturalist in all of us

Bossa Nova, an adaptation of a story by Sérgio Sant’Anna (“A Senhorita Simpson”) by the Brazilian director Bruno Barreto, seems to have been conceived as a vehicle for the latter’s wife, the former Mrs. Steven Spielberg, Amy Irving. She plays Mary Anne, an American widow living in Rio and teaching English to upwardly mobile Cariocas,…

Till There Was You, by Scott Winant, is a leaden and slow-moving romantic comedy that tries very hard to be romantic, but has very little success at all in being comic. Jeanne Tripplehorn plays Gwendolyn Moss, a young woman who, as a little girl in the 1970s, was inspired by the romantic story of her…