Badlands (1973)

A genuinely moving story of a mother in search of her lost child which, nevertheless, suffers from an all-too familiar sort of self-righteousness

Another example of old-fashioned, plot-driven movie-making for grown-ups from the director of A Separation

Despite its apocalyptic theme, Last Night by the young Canadian director, Don McKellar, is a shockingly modest—and thus, to my way of thinking anyway, likeable—little film. Set on the human race’s last day, before an unspecified cataclysm puts an end to all life on earth, the film attempts to make no profound political or spiritual…

Mel, we may love you for the enemies you’ve made, but your movie is still a mess

The full length version of my review of Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now Redux which appeared in a shortened form in the September-October American Spectator

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