Apartment, The

. . . And now Lewis Schwarzberg raises the question: does being a patriot require you to be a sentimentalist as well?

What? You didn’t think Macbeth was a comedy? Where have you been? This movie does for Shakespeare what Clueless did for Jane Austen, and it is at least as funny.

As he did in Elizabeth, Shekhar Kapur tries to make his historical characters less like themselves and more like us. Why the self-congratulation?

Besieged, like so many other films by its director, Bernardo Bertolucci, is dramatically simple and visually complex. More than any other director working today, Bertolucci is a story-teller in pictures, which makes for striking and memorable images that are forever bursting out of their contexts and becoming saucily incoherent, at least in any kind of…

Hilary Swank should never have left Nebraska — especially not for 18^th century France.

Like the Iliad, Biker Boyz — directed by Reggie Rock Bythewood from a screenplay he co-wrote with Craig Fernandez and based on an article by Michael Gougis in New Times magazine — presents us with the theatre of raw masculinity. Also like the Iliad it depicts a series of stylized taunts and scenes of individual…