Brief Encounter

A fine war movie in spite of its being pitched to an audience with a pacifist predisposition

Suddenly things in the popular culture begin to seem much, much worse than we had thought them. And we hadn’t thought they were good.

The long-awaited film version of the s-f classic from the 1970s proves a disappointment — mainly because the 1970s are just so over

A bleak, Third World love story that requires — but does not necessarily repay — a good deal of patience

The fairy-tale implications of title of The Princess and the Warrior (or, with German logic, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin), written and directed by Tom Tykwer, is both misleading and not. The film is set in the present day, in Wuppertal, Germany, and is told realistically—without even the fractured time scheme of Tykwer’s earlier hit,…

A poor evocation of the Cold War, this movie redeems itself with a portrayal of men doing their best to cope with a colossal military screw-up.