Train, The (1964)

It used to be said of anything that sounded overwrought and over-writerly that it “smelled of the lamp” — because the author was supposed to have had to stay up late to think of all the labored and artificial expressions he uses. Trixie, directed and co-written (with John Binder) by Alan Rudolph doesn’t just smell…

Please note that the star in this case has a very special meaning. This is that if you have strong nerves and are not subject to nightmares—and you live in one of the few places where Funny Games by the Austrian director Michael Haneke can be seen—by all means go to see it. But don’t…

An amusing and occasionally wise and witty film from Patrice Leconte, but one whose principal virtue is its leading man

The Dogme 95 movement produces another winner — a feel-good movie whose effects are not cheap. Or not very cheap.

Chicks behind bars — how can that not be titillating? Liz Garbus has found a way to make it positively dull

A therapeutic romance which tries to get us to see the good side of destructive and anti-social psychoses