Dirty Work

Another exercise in politically progressive moral earnestness by John Sayles sinks under its own weight of good intentions.

Does the old hippie dream of making a revolution by self-indulgence still survive? Apparently so — at least in the movies

At one point in Best Laid Plans, written by Ted Griffin and directed by Mike Barker, two recent college graduates have an intellectual conversation as they to the Tropico Recycling plant, where Nick (Alessandro Nivola) works, apparently to dispose of the body of a woman Nick killed. This he had done on behalf of his…

Alas for Haiti! Its rulers are crooks and thugs, its religion is voodoo and its heroes are communists

The Fifth Element by Luc Besson is what every crappy Hollywood postmodern extravaganza would be if it had the wit and the boldness of the author of La Femme Nikita and The Professional—together with a Hollywood blockbuster-sized budget of $100 million. With it, postmodernism has entered into its rococo phase. Some day, if anyone ever…

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