A revival more than 40 years after its initial release brought this sneaky black comedy deserving new life. What begins as a family farce steeped in Italian stereotypes – Italian clown Alberto Sordi plays a buttoned-up factory supervisor in Milan who brings his wife and daughters for a visit to the earthy, connected Sicily of

If only literary theory could always be this fun. The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman is one of those classic novels that few people have actually read, but director Michael Winterbottom has made it entertaining enough to get me to actually consider reading it. Or maybe I’ll just see this witty “adaptation” again

Another dumb, digitial-video exercise: It looks horrible, and the improvisatory, hand-held style only leads to pointless yammering. Paul Rudd and Romany Malco star as American mismatched brothers – the former is white and a slacker, the latter is black, all-business and adopted – who inherit a decrepit French chateau. Much forced comic banter and labored

A provocative if limited experiment, CSA purports to be a historical documentary – complete with alternative-universe commercial breaks – that encapsulates the history of the United States as if the Civil War had gone South. It’s a profane joke that doesn’t ruffle quite as many feathers as it should. At first, the shock of the

A good-natured movie that deserves a better title, a better script, a better effort from everyone behind the camera. Basically a gospel-themed remake of The Music Man, with Cuba Gooding, Jr. in the Harold Hill part, The Fighting Temptations has a few fun musical numbers but mostly goes through the motions. Audiences deserve better too.