Manchurian Candidate, The (1962)

The wildly over-rated Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) seems to me simply the most silly and pretentious load of tripe that I have seen in many a long day. So silly is it that, but for remembering a similar but less obtrusive kind of silliness to be found in…

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A celebration of the rich, multicultural tapestry that is Britain today whose sunny, funny approach to questions of cultural difference is perhaps just a tad overoptimistic.

When Shakespeare decided to put a trio of witches into Macbeth he knew that their very presence would suggest to his audience something fearful beyond imagining. They were a kind of algebraic symbol for the unknown quantity of evil which the play, in more realistic fashion, attempted to solve for. Nowadays, the presence of witches…

Ya Ya? Oh No! It’s yet another chapter in the continuing soap opera of Strong Southern Women and their heroic dysfunctions.

The makers of Amores Perros have tried to repeat, in English and with a Hollywood cast, the trick of that remarkable film, but have not quite succeeded