Children of Men

The decision to make this based-on-fact saga into a thriller rather than a moral drama may have been arisen from the assumption that the audience wouldn’t know how the story comes out

A film that tries to sell its anti-war message by making American soldiers in Iraq into victim-heroes. Haven’t we seen this somewhere before?

The absurdly pretentious and over-ambitious winner of this year’s Cannes Festival is at least pretty to look at

A remarkably sympathetic portrayal of the early life of St. Josemaría Escrivá, founder of Opus Dei — though it gains nothing from being tangled up with a fictional romance

Le Mépris, or Contempt, based on a novel by Alberto Moravia, was directed by Jean-Luc Godard in 1963, but has just been re-released in a newly refurbished print. Michel Piccoli stars as Paul, a Communist playwright being wooed by a dumb American millionaire called Jerry Prokosch (Jack Palance) to re-write a script for a film…

There is a period feel to this documentary. That poverty and neglect cause crime may now not be considered untrue exactly, but is not so true as it once seemed