Treasure of the Sierra Madre

The sad story of Kurt Gerron, a great Jewish talent from pre-war Germany whose memory is entirely overshadowed by his brief collaboration with the Nazis

The material girl is now, under the influence of the romantic leftism of her husband and Lina Wertmüller, the dialectical-material girl

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The Dreamlife of Angels (in French La Vie Revée des Anges) by Érick Zonca is by far the best picture I have seen this year and one of the best I have ever seen. I can’t remember the last time I came staggering out of a movie, as I did out of this one, literally…

A movie about the war in Iraq and the men who fight it whose superiority to the other movies about the war is mostly owing to how bad they are

A slacker comedy with some tentative and swiftly-disregarded pretensions to seriousness