This really excellent film shows how the royals, and in particular Queen Elizabeth, dealt with Princess Diana’s death — or failed to deal with it.

The movie would have made more sense to me if, somehow, the emperor were poisoning the empress to make way for his oldest son to take the throne. In the actual context, I could not figure out what he was up to with his wife.

The film was considerably better than I expected when I went into it.

No way is this a comedy, unless the definition of the term has changed radically in the last few years; it’s a drama about acculturation, and has few if any punchlines.

I would like to make a couple of negative comments about this film, for the sake of objectivity, but you know what? I can’t think of any offhand.

If you don’t mind a little violence and a little blood, this is a fun way of killing a couple of hours.

A remake of a historical event: the investment by a large contingent of the Mexican army of a hundred-year-old church in the village of San Antonio de Bejar and the eventual massacre of almost two hundred defenders, including a couple of genuine American folk heroes.

The plot really is three thousand years old …

The film is “tender and understated”, movie code for the fact that the less stoic viewer is likely to fall asleep early on.

The film took me back to my teens, when I read Walter Farley’s famous racehorse series The Black Stallion.

Compared to this, Seven Nights and Seven Days, in which Ford and Ann Heche are boringly marooned on a desert island, deserves “classic” status.

A rather interesting little movie, despite occasional overdependency on startlement.

Dragnet it’s not, however, a point which the LAPD evidently recognized when they refused to cooperate in its filming.

I really can’t say why I didn’t like this. Perhaps it was just too good for me.

While it would have been impossible to get everything in the book into a two-hour movie, I really think they could have devoted another five minutes to the breaking up of Dotheboys Hall.

In recent years Eastwood has sort of grown on me.

Catch it on USA every sunday evening at ten p.m.

I still haven’t decided whether or not this film is better or worse than the book.

This film seems to have been a vehicle for Matt Damon. As such, it’s fairly successful. As an adaptation of Ludlum’s story, I found it pretty lame.

Gipson is not nearly as innocent an individual as the trailer indicated, nor is Banek such an incorrigible sleazoid as one might expect after viewing the thirty-second introduction.

The movie is not about the characters but about their situation. You find it difficult to care whether they live or die.

In the end, I suspect that most people will watch this series more for Lex than for Clark and his powers or for the Smallville weirdness.

The storm is very well done, and I suggest that those with a tendency to motion sickness might better avoid this film.

The plot doesn’t always hang together, but it is fun; and it’s nice to know that some people are able to find redemption, though the assumption that they can only do so late in life — which is here defined as forty years old — is a bit unsettling…

I think that Washington Irving would have recognized this story.

Just.

For myself, if I’d been there and had heard Jeanne scream at Orleans: “If you love me … follow me!” I would have followed without hesitation.

I give away nothing when I say that the climactic high point of the film is when Lester gets his brains blown out …

In the canon of Tommy Lee Jones masterpieces, it’ll probably be ranked more or less the same as Volcano.

This movie came to me as one of the really nice surprises of this summer — though, after Willis’s role in Mercury Rising, I suppose I shouldn’t have been surprised.

In some ways, it did not play fair with the viewer.

I am not sure why I was so annoyed with this film.

It is probably one of the most realistic cinematic renditions of a war that I have seen. No John Waynes here.

While waiting for all the great new summer movies you might want to catch this somewhat interesting, and action-filled, new Bruce Willis flic