If you’ve seen The Lost Embrace (El Abrazo Partido) of 2004 by the young Argentine director Daniel Burman, your first reaction to his new film, Family Law (Derecho de Familia), is likely to be that we have been there, done that. Like the earlier picture, this one is about the troubled relationship between a Jewish…
Another funny, touching film about the relations between fathers and sons from the director of The Lost Embrace
The best movie version of a Bible story that I have seen
As both R. Emmett Tyrrell and George Will have pointed out, it didn’t take long for Senator-elect Jim Webb, representing the courtly Southern gentlemen of Virginia, to demonstrate that he himself is no gentleman. At a White House reception he publicly snubbed his host, President Bush, and took the occasion of the President’s polite inquiry after…
Scandal feeds upon itself. Now it has become scandalous even to suggest that something should not be made into a scandal — From The New Criterion of November, 2006
Why Hollywood obsessively re-enacts the great 20th century Fall of Man from 19th century innocence as chronicled in film noir — From The American Spectator of November, 2006
A lamentably bad Christmas movie with no more understanding of the traditions and beliefs it exploits than the ninnies it portrays
A paean to the sunshine and easy living of Provence inspired by Peter Mayle which stumbles in the attempt to turn itself into a romantic comedy
On the shockingly low standard of argument and evidence in today’s documentaries — From The American Spectator of October, 2006
Of the things that can and cannot be said in our national conversation about the uses of political power — From The New Criterion of October, 2006
