Children of Men

A great actors’ movie but, to that extent, not so great as a movie — From The American Spectator

A sometimes amusing take on a traditional Hollywood theme that ends in something close to despair

An interesting and intelligent take on the social and cultural dislocations caused by the Czech Republic’s assimilation into the globalized economy

Arguing the World, a documentary directed by Joseph Dorman, is what a documentary should be. That is, it persuasively re-creates a historical milieu—in this case intellectual life in post-War New York—by telling a particular story. The story is that of City College in the 1930s and 1940s, known as “the Jewish Harvard,” where the sons…

The most entertaining bit of Godzilla, which is rather short on entertaining bits, comes as the misunderstood scientist, Nick Tatopoulos (Matthew Broderick) is finally able to get through the remarkably thick skulls of the government and the military just what is at stake if they don’t make destroying the monster’s spawn their top priority, as…

A charmer about the clash between teen-culture and reality whose cynicism and striving after hipness make it less good than it might have been