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Savaging two Colin Firth movies for the price of . . .
Why I've avoided The King's Speech. Until now. More than a year after seeing it, I remain so thoroughly appalled by the memory of Tom Ford’s gay victimhood hatchet job on the Isherwood novella A Single...
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Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives
Overall, Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s new film Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives doesn’t surpass his previous work, the near-masterpiece Syndromes and a Century. The problems that cropped up...
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Our media culture learned nothing from Aurora
In the small hours of the morning that the Jonah Lehrer scandal broke, I had devoted a little time in crafting a letter to the editor of The New Yorker magazine. My letter went unpublished. Possibly,...
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Irrational Man
When Woody Allen outstretches his hand in the direction of irony, his filmmaking goes fatally, abysmally wrong. In the dreadful You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger, a failed novelist played by Josh...
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Here’s that Rainy Day: a near-masterpiece
Under the weather: Elle Fanning and Jude Law in A Rainy Day in New York I already knew Elle Fanning was a good actress long before I finally settled in to watch – over Valentine’s Day weekend, no less...
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