Amazing Grace

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The movie itself is at best routine, but it is interesting to watch the rather un-p.c. reactions of the audience

Adam Sandler as the new Gary Cooper? If you can believe that, you might actually like this awful, unfunny movie.

Like so much of the rest of Neil LaBute’s output, this is a good movie in a bad — I think a very bad — cause.

A lovely film about an American con-man and one of his dupes who find a spooky kind of redemption in each other

Readers will divide in their reactions to the very funny Australian film, The Castle, directed by Rob Sitch, according as they are disposed to see its presentation of the Australian equivalent of trailer-trash as patronizing or not. As I have rather a high tolerance for ridicule—of others if not of myself—I am inclined to find…