Mark Steyn The Constant Gardener 15, selected cinemas The constant gardener is Ralph Fiennes, whose character — Justin Quayle, a minor diplomat at the British High Commission in Nairobi — is a youngish...
For millions of people, Mel Gibson shows them their Jesus and their salvation. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
Death Wish is a remarkable social artefact, a valuable record of the day before yesterday - 1974 - when New York and many other American cities seemed in large part ungovernable. - The...
As a disaster [movie] ... it's oddly reassuring. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018 ...
There's an easy confidence about the project. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018 ...
This director is a young dog who needs some new tricks. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb 2, 2018 ...
One of its best qualities is that it's dark but not depressing. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Feb...
The film is excessively, parochially British at its periphery, yet insufficiently so at its core. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
Chicago is supposed to be cynical about showbiz, not embarrassed by it. Oh, well. There'll be another film musical along around 2008. - The Spectator EDIT ...
In this contemptibly evasive film, Forman and Harrelson transform Flynt into a free-speech crusader... - The Spectator EDIT Read...
The director, Ron Howard, is a grand old heartwarmer (Cocoon, etc.) but the heart of this picture is dead. - The Spectator EDIT ...
Diane Lane anchors the movie: she plays real and she looks real, with just enough lines and hints of wrinkles; a beautiful woman who's been distracted by too many school runs and charity...
Adamson eschews the big look-isn't-it-magical gestures of the Potter/Tim Burton approach, but he manages to convey the sense of wonder a wartime evacuee might feel at such transportation....
Malena poses as a bounteously endowed, ripe, curvy Italian mamma, but metaphorically it's an undernourished cadaverous Kate Moss of a movie. - The Spectator EDIT ...
If Hollywood ever totally collapses, films like High Crimes will be the reason why. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
The acting awards are utterly perplexing: Benoit Magimel's transformation in the final act smells fake. and Isabelle Huppert's piano teacher is the nearest to a one-note performance she's...
Great fun and remarkably, at two and a quarter hours, not a minute too long. - The Spectator EDIT Read More ...
If the cast looks ordinary, you should see the plot. - The Spectator EDIT Read More | Posted Jan 29, 2018 ...
If [it] sounds like the usual preoccupations of pop-culture parody, what lifts it above is Rodriguez's ability to create a self-contained world all of its own restless, wacky, beautiful...
There's so much to like about Wes Anderson's work, and it's hard not to warm to a guy who makes a comedy about damaged young has-beens. But he misfires badly in some crucial respects....
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