Meet the Fockers
Jay Roach mops up whatever laughs are left in this franchise, but I’m already sick of these Fockers
Mar Adentro (The Sea Inside)
The fine Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar employs his talents unworthily on behalf of propaganda for “the right to die”
Sea Inside, The (Mar Adentro)
The fine Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar employs his talents unworthily on behalf of propaganda for “the right to die”
Entry from December 14, 2004
According to a report by the staff of Representative Henry Waxman of California, a Democrat and frequent critic of the Bush administration, at least some high school students who have taken part in abstinence-only sex education programs funded by the federal government have been given “false, misleading, or distorted information.” Ceci Connolly of the Washington…
Deserted Station, The
Another fine Iranian study of the clash between innocence and experience, rural and city people, Eastern fatalism and Western-style striving.
Entry from November 30, 2004
Not that I would like for a single moment to be thought an apologist for poor sportsmanship, let alone for what by all accounts would seem to be the appallingly unsportsmanlike Ron Artest, but isn’t the outpouring of criticism that has lately greeted this Indiana Pacer’s attack on a basketball fan in Detroit — as…
Hoosier Heathen
Without any other standard of morality, we must make do with what’s “normal.” So are we saved from the only remaining sin, hypocrisy. — From The American Spectator of November, 2004
Outraged Intellectuals
Choosing our president on the basis of trivialities seems to be the prerogative of the intellectual nouveau riche — From The New Criterion of November, 2004
Very Long Engagement, A (Un Long Dimanche de Fiançailles)
Another exercise in charm and whimsy from the very charming Audrey Tautou and the very whimsical Jean-Pierre Jeunet
Long Dimanche de Fiançailles, Un (A Very Long Engagement)
Jean-Pierre Jeunet, the creative force behind A Very Long Engagement (Un long dimanche de fiançailles), has always been a quirky director. In fact, “quirky” is putting it mildly. His early films, Delicatessen (1991) and City of Lost Children (1995) often seem like illustrations for the definition of “post-modern” proposed by Moe Sislak of “The Simpsons,”…
SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The
Suddenly things in the popular culture begin to seem much, much worse than we had thought them. And we hadn’t thought they were good.