King’s Row (1942)
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An updating of a classic film of the 1940s goes badly astray in a now-familiar way — by turning its heroes into victims
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…
A lovely film about an American con-man and one of his dupes who find a spooky kind of redemption in each other
Romanticism gives way to blatant sentimentalism in Nick Cassavetes’s tribute to lifelong love. . .
The Best Man, written and directed (in Italian) by Pupi Avati begins by solemnly informing us that “Once upon a time, women would marry not knowing what love was. . .” And lest you think, in a moment of nervousness, that you might not know what it is either, the film hastens to explain that…
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