James Bowman
As is often the case, the best bit of Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang is in the preview. A man on…
That I liked Rodrigo Garcia’s Nine Lives I’m not afraid to admit, I think, even though it is a bit…
Why I should have expected anything other than an exercise in media triumphalism from Good Night and Good Luck, I…
Like so much else, the servant who is wiser than his master goes back to Cervantes. Sancho Panza is to…
Here’s the question which, if you’re going to make a film for a Western audience about jihadist suicide bombers, you…
Opening the other week were not one but two films by foreigners seeking to explain America’s “culture of violence.” One,…
Now that they are over, we can ask what were the anti-war demonstrations in Washington last weekend for? Though the…
The best line in A History of Violence comes when William Hurt, playing a sinister mafia boss, berates a hapless…
The German Marxist critic, Theodor Adorno, was once famous for having remarked that, after Auschwitz, poetry was impossible, though that…
The tell-tale moment in An Unfinished Life, Lasse Hallstrom’s latest essay in liberal uplift, comes when Robert Redford, in the…
