Black Hawk Down (2001)

An interesting and intelligent take on the social and cultural dislocations caused by the Czech Republic’s assimilation into the globalized economy

Oliver Stone’s capacity for distorting and trivializing history, always considerable, reaches new heights

A Swedish vampire movie comes close to injecting a magical new life into a tired conceit but doesn’t quite succeed

Beautiful people having funny adventures on the wrong side of the law and getting rich. You’ve just got to love them —  don’t you?

A frankly mendacious and distorted account of the life and innovations of the founder of Facebook — who may or may not care

A Place Called Chiapas, directed by the Canadian Nettie Wild, is a documentary about what the New York Times has rightly called “the world’s first post-modern revolution.” It begins with military vehicles emerging from darkness and a voiceover talking about the Zapatista movement of the Chiapan campesinos, led by Subcomandante Marcos, as having been “born…