Movie Review: “The Spy Who Came in from the Cold”
About five decades ago, a young, real-life MI6 spook named David Cornwell became irritated by…
Author Bob Westal
Movie Review: “Standard Operating Procedure”
“This place will make Abu Ghraib look like the Four Seasons. We’ll need a car…
Movie Review: “Happy-Go-Lucky”
The freewheeling heroine of this award-winning entry from Mike Leigh, England’s master of controlled cinematic…
Movie Review: “Rear Window”
Of the millions of people who saw last year’s featherweight Shia LaBeouf suspense hit “Disturbia,”…
Movie Review: “Vertigo”
“Psycho” and “The Birds” launched the modern horror film; “The 39 Steps” helped set the…
Movie Review: “Touch of Evil”
It might be a cinephile touchstone from Orson Welles, the most hallowed of all Hollywood…
Movie Review: “Brotherhood of the Wolf”
Without a doubt, the strangest thing about this lavish, six-year-old international cult hit (an eccentric…
Movie Review: “Moonstruck”
In line with the conceit that it’s something like an opera, the original cut of…
Movie Review: “High Noon”
A masterfully efficient thriller and the single most parodied Western of all time, “High Noon”…
Movie Review: “Heat”
Since its release, “Heat” has only grown more popular among fans of ultra-macho action and…