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Nicole Kidman as a Russian mail-order bride? Who wouldn’t let her beat him up and turn him to a life of crime?

The Dogme 95 movement produces another winner — a feel-good movie whose effects are not cheap. Or not very cheap.

Amazing! An old-fashioned drama of honor and faith and romance and swordplay not intended to send these things up.

Ridley Scott has produced a masterpiece about men in battle. As you might expect, The New York Times hated it.

Hollywood, as usual, tells us the truth we want to believe, but here at least there is some credit to us in wanting to believe it.

You’ve got to admire a movie that champions a modest and austere heroism for an unheroic age, but you don’t have to love it.

A life-long master of publicity hits the jackpot one more time.

That icky little left-wing prole, Robert Altman, amuses himself by satirizing his social betters. Does that make you feel better about yourself?

Another triumph of old-fashioned movie-making from the Czech authors of Kolya.

A cop-on-the-edge turns out to be more interesting for his marriage than as a romantic loner — another smashing two-star movie from Down Under.

A remarkable evocation by the director of Central Station of life in the outback of Brazil 90 years ago is spoiled by a facile ending.