Big Sleep, The

A movie that is a very good example of its kind, even though its kind is not to this critic’s taste

For Love of the Game, starring Kevin Costner as Billy Chapel, an aging pitcher for the Detroit Tigers who hopes to end his career with a perfect game, turns out to be yet another Costnerian marathon of mawkishness and self indulgence. Oddly for a film that is ostensibly about a guy who has to learn…

A feeble parody of the old-time Hollywood musical that appears to have wowed critics not in spite of but because of all the ways it falls short of its original

Another French paean to amour fou and the existential sainthood appertaining to madmen and criminals — so what’s not to like?

A bit of feminist, anti-corporatist, anti-religious hysteria piggy-backing on Hollywood’s enthusiasm for serial killers