An uneven, unconvincing film by John Madden (Shakespeare in Love) about the story of Mossad agents on a mission to capture a horrible Nazi…
This provocative, bitterly sardonic documentary starts at the end of Ceaucescu’s life, when the much diminished Romanian dictator and his wife Elena sit in a court refusing to answer questions. It is a shock to see a country’s leader barked at by somebody who…
I’m with the Japanese. I believe that at this point in human history we can relegate the hand shake to an ancient custom. We live in a time where you shake someone’s hand and could get sick. So why don’t we all greet strangers with a respectful little bow? According to Contagion, we could save ourselves a lot…
I don’t know whether this noirish car chase movie should be taken seriously. There’s much in it that has got to be tongue in cheek, although it’s hard to tell whether director Nicolas Winding Refn and screenwriter Hossein Amini are dead serious or joking. Either way, if we can’t be sure, something’s not working…
United 93 by Paul Greengrass
I wrote this article for a Mexican magazine five years ago. The translation from Spanish is mine.
Five years after the 9/11 attacks, the media asks whether the American people are ready to watch…