James Bowman

Those who want to appear prescient can start talking now about the “Sharp Turn to the Right in Britain” that…

Sarah Watt’s Look Both Ways bears more than a passing resemblance to Nicole Holofcener’s Friends With Money, which I reviewed…

Friends With Money, the new film by Nicole Holofcener (Walking and Talking, Lovely & Amazing), is a bit like Robert…

The best moment in Rian Johnson’s movie, Brick, comes just after the hero, Brendan Frye (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), has been worked…

Directed by the actor, Steve Buscemi, from an autobiographical first script by James C. Strouse, Lonesome Jim takes on a…

Here dead we lie Because we did not choose To live and shame the land From which we sprung. Life,…

Jason Reitman’s film version of Christopher Buckley’s novel, Thank You for Smoking, gets you hooked and leaves you wanting more,…

The sneering review in the New York Times Book Review by a novelist called Walter Kirn of Harvey Mansfield’s Manliness…

The best film I’ve seen so far this year is Duck Season (Temporada de Patos) by Fernando Eimbcke. At 36,…

The subtext of Our Brand Is Crisis, a riveting documentary by Rachel Boynton about the American political consultants who helped…