Searchers, The

Charles Darwin re-imagined by today’s progressive-minded atheists as the patron saint of their cause

Brother, a Russian film written and directed by Alexei Balabanov, stars Sergei Bodrov, Jr, as Danila, a recently discharged soldier at a loose end who makes his way to St. Petersburg where his brother, Viktor (Victor Suhorukov) is somebody in the burgeoning underworld of Russia’s second city. The city itself is a main character in…

Did Mr Rogers’s extraordinary capacity for love end up producing a generation of haters?

Liv Ullmann’s direction of the screenplay of her former director, “mentor” and lover, Ingmar Bergman in Faithless (Trolösa), is remarkably competent—remarkably Bergmanian—in all kind of technical ways, but I wonder if she was fully alive to the subtleties built into this story of a broken marriage? For that matter, I wonder if Bergman himself is?…

You’ve got to admire a movie that champions a modest and austere heroism for an unheroic age, but you don’t have to love it.

Hollywood’s take on the financial crisis of 2008. Guess who gets the blame.