Full Metal Jacket (1987)

A bit of magical realism that is too heavy on the magic and too light on the realism

A delightful trip down memory lane for anyone with an interest in British “football” — i.e. soccer — of the 1970s

You’ve got to admire a movie that champions a modest and austere heroism for an unheroic age, but you don’t have to love it.

A German film whose humor, sentiment, charm and lightness of touch make it seem almost French

An repellant and loathsome film about repellant and loathsome people that seeks to mine a mostly played-out seam of schlock and shock

Hurlyburly directed by Anthony Drazan and written (from his stageplay) by David Rabe has an all-star cast, but it cannot escape from the poverty of its script, in which nothing very much happens (people come and go) and all the characters talk exactly alike—that is in a kind of souped-up psychobabble with an occasionally Pinterian…