My Man Godfrey

A gently comic and poignant film about the hope of youth and the disappointments of age set against the backdrop of Arab-Israeli relations

A Merry War is the American title given to the adaptation by Robert Bierman (director) and Alan Plater (writer) of George Orwell’s sunniest novel, Keep the Aspidistra Flying— presumably because Americans don’t know what an aspidistra is. For the record, it is a houseplant with long, leathery swordlike leaves which, in the 1930s was a…

A much too long and incoherent but always watchable journey into the ever-stranger country of the 1970s.

Like its predecessor, Toy Story 2 is a triumph of technology — the relatively new technology of computer animation — if not of moviemaking. In fact, as a kind of technological marvel it is naturally impervious to criticism on any merely airy-fairy, aesthetic grounds. Like the Bond films with which it might otherwise be thought…

An epic tale of an outcast Vietnamese boy’s quest to find his American father

A movie about self-satisfaction that is itself way too self-satisfied to have anything very interesting to say