Must See
[See “Entry from July 13, 2011” under “My Diary”]
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Firestorm is the kind of picture which it would be nice to be able to encourage with a sympathetic review. It is the story of heroic men—in this case the legendary “smoke jumpers” who parachute into forest fires to help put them out—fighting against both nature and bad guys and prevailing against both. Nor is…
A very slow-moving, atmospheric appreciation of the 19th century outlaw — or at least of his celebrity, which it seems a shame his assassin did not inherit
The media’s almost universal treatment of Michael Moore as if he had something serious to say tells us a lot about their own fundamental lack of seriousness
An adaptation which brings out the worst in Philip Roth’s novel
A Brazilian revenge-drama is too portentous and fraught with religious significance for all but the most militant of atheists to appreciate
A slacker comedy with some tentative and swiftly-disregarded pretensions to seriousness
