Black Hawk Down (2001)

A touching and well-made movie from India whose motto, worthy of emulation by Hollywood, is "less is more"

The real-life version of Rocky finally gets his own movie

This might have been a striking parable of the plight of young people today, if only the film-makers could have seen a little further beyond its absurdities

Adrian Lyne is shockingly unfaithful to Claude Chabrol’s masterpiece, La Femme Infidèle, giving adultery the Oprah treatment.

I should say that I have not seen the original film of 1968 which inspired the remake of Sweet November, written by Kurt Voelker and directed by Pat O’Connor. But I have seen so many films so much like it — admittedly not many of them recently — that the remake looks very familiar indeed….

Antz directed by Eric Darnell and Tim Johnson begins with unmistakable Woody Allen—i.e. not some animated ant named “Z”—in analysis, feeling neurotic because, as the middle child of 5 million he didn’t get a lot of attention as a child. He tells the doctor that he is intimidated by the ant work-ethic: “Everything for the…