Christmas in July

A movie to reassure us: the Arab satellite news service al-Jazeera is hardly any more anti-American than the rest of the media

A portrait of modern sanctity which — very oddly, in my view — asks not to be taken too seriously

Rarely has America appeared to better effect as the fairlyland of the immigrants’ dreams. It makes you ashamed to be an American

A rather thrilling if unbalanced account of the hunt for and killing of Osama bin Laden which has been unfairly attacked for advocating torture

Milos Forman’s Man on the Moon is worth seeing for two reasons. One is the remarkable performance of Jim Carrey as the late comic and performance artist (as we should call him today), Andy Kaufman. I confess that I have always numbered myself among the Carrey-skeptics, and cannot remember a single performance of his that…

A funny and rather touching return to one of the great screen traditions of yesteryear — and one of the few that hasn’t been spoiled by ‘toonery