Jaws. dir. by Steven Spielberg, with Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfus, and Roy Scheider.

Jaws is a good, scary movie, no doubt about that. But it is hardly the best movie of all time, or even the scariest....

The Old Culture returns in a warm, affectionate story about the American Girls' Professional Baseball League that was established by some baseball owners during World WarII and lasted until the early 1950s....

For once, the Academy Awards were tolerable-not the ceremony which was longer, more boring, and more Politically Correct than ever-but the awards themselves. The Unforgiven was neither my favorite picture...

Social realism, we sometimes forget, does not have to be about the poor, the underclass, or upwardly mobile immigrants. Social realism, even in New York City can be about the glamorous, wealth)!, preppie...

Heralded and beloved by the left as Robert Altman's "comeback" movie, this "satire" on Hollywood is both unfunny and meretricious. Supposedly a critique ofHollywood's commercialism from the standpoint...

The brouhaha over this movie is ridiculous. This is not one of the Major Statements ofOur Time. Basically a film noira tough, sleazy cop-and-murder picture, differing from the old films noir by having...

This brings me to The Piano, a movie which I fell into in a weak moment. The Piano is far and away the WorstMovie I have seen in many years, perhaps since what may well be the WorstMovie ofAllTime, the...

Why Malcolm X? Why the sudden rage, replete with baseball caps inscribed with X's, for a man assassinated nearly thirty years ago? Partly it's media hype, centered around the new hagiographic movie made...

You would think from the shock ofthe Respectable Media, that Stone's ]FK was totally outlandish, off-the-wall, monstrous and fanciful in its accusations against the American power structure. And you would...

And yet anyone who tries to Learn About History by going to a Hollywood movie deserves to have his head examined. Did we really learn the true story of Moses by watching Charlton Heston, or by seeing the...

Hollywood has brought us two great, romantic genres, two forms of movies where the war of good versus evil could play itself out against a background of an entire complex fictive world grounded in a present...

A wondrous, exuberant, very funny and heartwarming movie by the best new director in many a moon, Peter Chelsom, who also co-wrote the screenplay: A richly-textured show-business film set among Irish immigrants...

A charming movie, directed by Jon Avnet, about the rural South, now and in the old days. Outstanding acting by Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy and the rest of the cast. A paean to the old Southern way of life,...

Since World War II, with only a few exceptions (usually the films of Eric Rohmer), French cinema has been, for all of us cultural reactionaries, abominable. Almost to a movie, they have been absurdist,...

Unless you're crazy about incomprehensible shuckin' and jivin'. The banal plot centers around the fact that Woody Harrelson, though white, can actually play good playground basketball. Harrelson and black...

Long-time readers know that I am decidedly not a fan of foreign language movies: not because it is a chore to read subtitles, but because they are invariably horrible examples of aggressively avant-garde,...

A picture about fly-fishing in Montana? For an urban New York type like myself who wouldn't know a fly-fisherman from a surfer, who thinks that fish should be caught in giant nets, and who believes that...

First came the hype. That Star Wars is going to be the biggest popular film success since Jaws means very little. So every season is going to have its oversold smash hit, so what? But the difference, the...

It’s not only the Supreme Court that follows the election returns. Hollywood, too, does its bit, and movie theatres have been increasingly filled with right-wingy patriotism, like the rest of the media...

The Godfather is one of the great movies of the last several years, and its enormous popularity is eminently well deserved. In the first place, it is a decidedly Old Culture movie, or “movie-movie”;...