On Moonlight Bay (1951)

A very funny if very unreliable version of the Abscam scandal of 1980 with a distinctive, David O. Russell touch

An absorbing if not-very-happy study of happiness — and unhappiness — among the English middle classes

A charmless, tedious and unfunny movie that cultivates an image of — of all things — intelligence

A touching documentary portrait of a not-quite tragic fall from what passes these days for greatness

Very Bad Things, written and directed by Peter Berg, aspires to be a black comedy but it forgets to be comic. The title is a true enough description of what is to be found inside, but as none of the bad things are also funny, the movie itself is merely. . .a bad thing. Jon…

Weird but not nearly weird enough to escape from being really boring and self-indulgent.