Really fizzy and fun; it’s not exactly stark realism, but damn, newspaper reporting in the forties looked like a lot of fun. I don’t know about that hat on Rosalind Russell, though.

Overall, disappointingly dull.   I’ve seen enough Hitchcock to get the jokes, and there were several moments I did like — the bus passing them that has the L.A. Philharmonic playing the dramatic music; “a …

Interesting. The movie puts you in the position of sympathizing with Henry, or at least siding with him, while strongly disliking Otis; the categorization of the sins is interesting. I did have some difficulty believing …

We realized about 10 minutes in that the movie is just not good — the acting is okay (Bale is good, especially given what he has to work with; everyone else is putting in a …

I liked it, although I usually find Annette Bening maddening for some reason; she doesn’t have much range and she’s often too whiny for me. I’d have preferred to see a movie all about the …

I suspect that it’s difficult for a contemporary audience to get as much out of these WWI movies as they should, since we know now what they couldn’t have known then. The whole societal attitude …

Believe it or not, I’d never it  seen before. It could have used tighter cutting, but it’s so ridiculous that it works somehow. (7/12/04)

It isn’t quite as weighty as I expected; the movie part is actually fairly slight, relying as it does on old footage to fill in the plot. But it’s interesting, it moves well, and the …

It’s kind of funny, but also kind of tired — like, everyone onscreen literally seemed exhausted. It felt really low-energy compared to the first two and never really caught fire. Then again, we missed the …

I did not realize how completely both Ian McKellen and Lynn Redgrave had gotten robbed at the Oscars until now. McKellen is just amazing, completely natural and transporting as a storyteller; the sequence where he …