The Hundred-Foot Journey

It can be useful, say when grandma's in town, for a movie as innocuous and blandly palatable as Lasse Hallstrom's "The Hundred-Foot Journey" to be playing.

Yves Saint Laurent, The Last Sentence

Yves Saint Laurent

The Last Sentence




I did not have high hopes.

White House Down, I'm So Excited!, The Heat, The Stroller Strategy

White House Down

I'm So Excited!

The Heat

The Stroller Strategy

"White House Down" is the most preposterous movie of the year. "I'm So Excited!" is by far - and I mean this in the best possible way - the faggiest. "The Heat" has some of the biggest laughs. And "The Stroller Strategy" may be the most witless. Each sits on the cusp of the next lower star rating but reaps the benefit of my Wimbledon-induced, sleep-deprived laxity.