James Bowman
The wildly over-rated Dancer in the Dark by Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves) seems to me simply the most…
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye, a documentary by Fenton Bailey and Randy Barbato, is worth seeing in the limited sense…
Nurse Betty, the new film by Neil LaBute (In the Company of Men, Your Friends and Neighbors), is wonderfully enjoyable…
The Opportunists by Myles Connell is a pleasant surprise. To some extent, it represents a throwback to the good old…
There are a lot of things wrong with Howard Deutch’s new film, The Replacements, beginning with the fact that it…
The re-release of Jules Dassin’s Rififi (French title: Du Rififi Chez les Hommes) of 1954 comes opportunely to remind the…
They don’t come much more charming than Shower, a Chinese film by Zhang Yang with a delicacy and a poignancy…
At one point in Space Cowboys, William “Hawk” Hawkins (Tommy Lee Jones) says to Frank Corvin (Clint Eastwood): “Old Age…
It’s almost unbelievable that at this distance of time someone could make a movie about Abbie Hoffman which is utterly…
The Tao of Steve by Jenniphr Goodman is a likeable little slacker film set in (or near) Santa Fe, but…
A great fan of Taste of Cherry, the last film by the Iranian director, Abbas Kiarostami, I went to his…
The title of the latest movie to come out of the Evil Empire is Disney’s “The Kid”, possibly because the…