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Dark and wild 

ADAPTING a beloved children's book for the screen is a difficult task. Adapting a beloved picture book, famous as much for its vivid illustrations...

A milestone underappreciated 

FOR MOST of the last century, the West faced real enemies: totalitarian, aggressive, armed to the teeth. Between 1918 and 1989, it was...

Out of the Whirlwind 

THE films of Joel and Ethan Coen represent one of the most challenging bodies of work in contemporary American cinema--so challenging, in fact,...

Pope Benedict's gambit 

THE CHURCH of England has survived the Spanish Armada, the English Civil War and Elton John performing at Princess Diana's Westminster Abbey...

A catastrophic option 

THREE MAJOR problems plague American health care. The cost of premiums is eating up an ever larger share of take-home pay. The cost of our...

The wrong man 

ANOTHER Steven Soderbergh movie already? It was only last winter that the prolific director was inviting audiences to endure the turgid Che, his...

Doing a heckuva job, Barack Doing a heckuva job, Barack 

THIS WAS Barack Obama's chance.

Here was an opportunity to cut himself free, in a stroke, from the baggage that's weighed his...

Riches of rags 

Two movies about Anna Wintour and Vogue have graced theaters in the last four years. First there was The Devil Wears Prada, based on a roman a clef...

The self-correcting presidency 

LAST WEEK, the Census Bureau released a statistical report on the last year of George W. Bush's presidency. The numbers were brutal. On every...

Juvnile but brlliant 

IF you know anything about Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, you probably know that it features a team of Jewish-American commandos who...