James Bowman
THE DEATH OF HILTON KRAMER IN MARCH, two days after his 84th birthday, may seem to put a period to…
If you liked Terrence Malick’s Tree of Life — or, for that matter, any of his films since Badlands (1973)…
As an actress, the young Canadian Sarah Polley is always interesting, always watchable — for example, in The Sweet Hereafter…
The Intouchables — a French film with a not-quite-English title — by the team of Olivier Nakache and Eric Toledano…
The word that echoes through Lynn Shelton’s Your Sister’s Sister is “weird.” Here, for instance, is Sister A talking to…
One of the worst things about being a progressive and so being, as progressives like President Obama and Senator Harry…
Wes Anderson makes whimsical movies about unusual families made up of eccentric adults and precocious children who live in a…
The very worthy epic picture For Greater Glory: The True Story of Cristiada, directed by Dean Wright and written by…
The words “dystopia” and “dystopian” may be hard to get along without nowadays, but they are linguistic monstrosities, formed on…
The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel is a Richard Curtis movie without Richard Curtis. Director John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) and…
