Guy Ritchie made a strong impression with two early movies, "Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels," and "Snatch." For the next several years, he was best known as Madonna's latest husband, and for directing her in the excoriatingly-reviewed remake, "Swept...
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Cormac McCarthy took the title of his novel "No Country for Old Men" from the first line of William Butler Yeates' "Sailing to Byzantium," a poem about old age. The book, and movie, are not about old age, but partly...
"Surveillance" is the second movie directed by Jennifer Lynch, daughter of David. Her first was "Boxing Helena" in 1993, which was greeted by outraged, indignant reviews and very little action at the boxoffice. "Surveillance" received relatively few reviews and also...
"GoodFellas" is so good, even triumphant, in so many ways it's just about impossible to know where to begin. The movie is so rich and detailed that half an hour into it, I could hardly wait to see it again,...
