Apartment, The

Hilary and Jackie, directed by Anand Tucker from a screenplay by Frank Cottrell Boyce and based on the memoir A Genius In the Family by Hilary and Piers du Pré is a guilty pleasure. It is a pleasure because it is marvelously written, acted and directed, but it is a guilty one because a lot…

There are two transcendent moments in the Autumn Tale, the fourth and perhaps best of Eric Rohmer’s magisterial “Tales of the Four Seasons.” The first is when we suddenly realize that the simple story of two women, married Isabelle (Marie Rivière) and her divorced friend Magali (Béatrice Romand), whom she is trying to fix up…

This might have been a striking parable of the plight of young people today, if only the film-makers could have seen a little further beyond its absurdities

The now familiar practice of making machines into the heroes of our favorite technological romances has taken another leap forward.

Jason Bourne stands for the exquisite conscience of liberal America which, when geostrategic necessity comes calling, can only cry out that they should have left us alone

A disappointing parody of a horror flick which offers only a glance at in the direction of real-world satire before getting down to the routine business of dragging someone to hell