James Bowman
Never, quite possibly, in the history of the American cinema has a bigger, baggier monster been brought to birth and…
My first impression of Valkyrie — starring, as everyone knows, Tom Cruise as Colonel Claus von Stauffenberg — is how…
“Obama Makes History,” blared the headline in the Washington Post last November 5. A few days later in the same…
The critical raves for Slumdog Millionaire — directed by Danny Boyle (Trainspotting; 28 Days Later) to a screenplay that Simon…
It’s gratifying that, in the week that Twilight was about to demonstrate the ease with which our degraded popular culture…
Like Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), for which he wrote the screenplay, Charlie Kaufman’s Synecdoche, New York is…
FRANK LANGELLA IS A FINE ACTOR — for a movie star. But that he is primarily the latter rather than…
In his new film, Happy-Go-Lucky, as in so many of his previous ones, the British director Mike Leigh is not…
Reviewing Rachel Getting Married in the New York Times, A.O. Scott writes that the movie’s director, Jonathan Demme, “is the…
