Amazing Grace

Once again, Clint Eastwood reaches after profundity and compassion but can grasp only conventional emotions and beliefs

Every so often a reader writes asking me to lighten up, to stop looking so closely at the movies I review and just relax and enjoy them. I always wonder why people would bother reading a critic who did that. Could they not relax and enjoy a movie themselves unless they could reassure themselves that…

The best movie version of a Bible story that I have seen

A typical bit of buffoonish performance art from Michael Moore, yet thousands will mistake it for serious political thought

An absorbing if not-very-happy study of happiness — and unhappiness — among the English middle classes

An interesting French film that plays around with movie-stereotypes of the police, though it could do more to subvert them