Full Metal Jacket (1987)

“Age is unnecessary,” as King Lear ruefully noticed, though there is more than one way of disposing of it

Idle Hands, directed by Rodman Flender (can there really be someone with such a name?), is another in the recent spate of teen movies. With what can only be considered predictable unsuccess, it tries to marry the old-fashioned, rather campy moralism of the old-time teen slasher movie with the hip, happenin’, po-mo wit of Scream….

A beautiful if harrowing film about a clash between medieval and modern in which neither looks much like a winner

Middle-aged women become overnight celebrities by taking their clothes off. Phooahh! That’s what I call empowerment

The powerful and moving love story of Fanny Brawne and — some poet

There is sometimes a fine line between the pitiless, unflinching gaze that sees things as they are and the impulse to glory in moral squalor. Todd Solondz doesn’t avoid crossing it.