King’s Row (1942)

What? You didn’t know that Nixon was assassinated? You must not have been paying attention to the Hollywood fantasy-factory

Unmade Beds by Nicholas Barker is the sort of picture I would normally hate: a kind of heightened documentary that is not really, as it purports to be, straightforward interviews with four single adults in New York but rather staged interviews in which each of the subjects has been given a chance to work up…

Romy & Michele’s High School Reunion by David Mirkin seems to be a sort of female version of Dumb and Dumber about two dumb blondes, Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow), who have lived together since high school, had no success to speak of, but return to their tenth reunion determined to pretend to…

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Another brilliantly funny episode in the lives of a cheese-eating inventor and his dog

A movie about self-satisfaction that is itself way too self-satisfied to have anything very interesting to say