Unexceptional Western made slightly exceptional by dint of it being a Walt Disney movie, one featuring fairly intelligent writing, acting, and photography, as well as some excellently and innovatively staged stunt work. Christopher Connelly is thin-voiced but competent in the title role, and Robert Reed stalwart and fine as Captain John C. Fremont, who engages Carson to guide him on an ostensible survey mission from New Mexico to California. Being a Disney movie, there is, of course, a precocious kid…

A miscast Richard Gere is nonetheless effective as Lancelot, while Julia Ormond and Sean Connery, in one of his best performances, comprise the rest of the love triangle of Guinevere and King Arthur in yet another telling of the legend. This one is a fine example without being an extraordinary one. Gere's swordplay is exemplary, and he conveys Lancelot's contradictory passion and loyalty with sufficient expertise for the demands of the narrative. Ormond, condemned like most actresses in these things…

It took many years, but I finally found a science-fiction movie I hated worse than Star Wars. This pseudo-mythic melange of Islamic-Gaelic-Hebrew-Christian nomenclature and ponderous Sir Gawainish “dialog” has virtually no intelligible story beyond the barest framework of presumably good guys in conflict with assortments of monosyllabic bad guys. No effort is evident in making the characters identifiable humans one could connect with emotionally (although Jason Momoa, through force of personality, comes close). It’s all sci-fi fanboy wanking, with all…

This remarkable tale of loneliness, purpose, and what we now call "unfriending" is another in the stunning emotional explorations by writer-director Martin McDonagh. In a performance that tops anything of his I've ever seen, Colin Farrell is heartbreaking as a provincial Irish lad who cannot understand and will not grasp that his closest friend no longer wants his friendship. As the former friend, Brendan Gleeson is also superb, but the picture really belongs to Farrell, who plays exquisitely the balancing…