Breach

A very watchable version of Charles Portis’s 1968 novel that is better than its authors’ recent form but still not so good as the first movie version

An interesting and engaging adaptation of Tolstoy’s novel which might even signal a wider cultural turning away from the liberationist view of sexual passion

Charming, funny, but also morally serious, this is about as good as American movie-making gets these days

It’s almost unbelievable that at this distance of time someone could make a movie about Abbie Hoffman which is utterly without any sense of irony about or detachment from the eccentric views of the late Yippie leader. They used to say about the Bourbons that they had learned nothing and forgotten nothing, but Louis XVIII…

The best movie version of a Bible story that I have seen

Jim Carrey plays the only decent, honest guy in the world who, having been screwed over by the system, turns to crime. What’s so funny about that?