Sergeant York

Beloved, from the novel by Toni Morrison and directed by Jonathan Demme, exploits the sufferings of black people under slavery on behalf of a radical feminism that is merely parasitical upon them. Blacks in general and black men in particular ought to resent having their own history hijacked in this way, and used in the…

Almost Famous begins in 1969 with a literary discussion about Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird between a precocious eleven year-old, William Miller (Michael Angarano), and his widowed mother, Elaine (Frances McDormand). A college professor in San Diego, Elaine has obviously invested a great deal of hope in her son, whom she intends to be…

Another illustration of the melancholy truth that you can’t get a quart into a pint pot — or, perhaps, a Victorian novel into a Hollywood film.

Anyone who loves words and word games, and especially anyone who has ever struggled with the New York Times crossword, will find a lot to enjoy in this movie

Are Americans getting to be the good guys in the movies once again? Well, maybe not altogether so.

An austerely beautiful film by the Anglo-Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski that could hardly be a greater departure from his earlier My Summer of Love