Hurt Locker, The (2008)

A fantastical satire against bureaucracy whose real-world target is less than immediately recognizable

A farrago of fake blood, movie pastiche and historical nonsense whose rapturous critical reception tells you all you need to know about the state of the culture

Sunshine, directed and co-written by the Hungarian Istvan Szabo but with an entirely English-speaking cast, is a superbly well-crafted film that manages, unlike so many of its elephantine brethren these days, to keep our attention riveted throughout its three-hour length. For what it is, it could hardly be better, but what-it-is is family- saga soap…

Yet another example of gore, black humor and special effects that only has contempt for the non-special but desirable effect of explaining what is going on

The movie itself is at best routine, but it is interesting to watch the rather un-p.c. reactions of the audience

Steven Spielberg’s watchable but naïve and incoherent account of the revenge by Israel for the murder of its Olympic athletes in Munich in 1972