Articles by James Luscombe

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  Taboo

  Nagisa Oshima

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Nagisa Oshima has never been a particularly commercial director. Despite the fact that Madonna gave a glowing cover blurb to "In the Realm...

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  Gangster No. 1

  Paul McGuigan

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  It's a scene you've watched many times before: a gangster viciously taking revenge on a rival mob boss. But as this particular set-piece pr...

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  Baby Boy

  John Singleton

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  As I was watching the new John Singleton film, "Baby Boy," I found myself keeping a running tally of things I admired about it, and things...

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  Boiler Room

  Ben Younger

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Boiler Room is about scrappy young stock brokers with bad ethics and cutthroat selling tactics that they seem to have learned exclusively f...

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  The Man Who Cried

  Sally Potter

  PUBLISHED Nov 17, 2016

  Sally Potter's The Man Who Cried is the kind of film that seems to make excuses for itself. It covers up its own hoary, melodramatic tracks...

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  Caché

  Michael Haneke

  PUBLISHED Apr 16, 2007

  Georges and Anne are your classic Paris bourgeois couple. As played by Daniel Auteuil and Juliette Binoche, they're the kind of wealthy, de...

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  Un Couple Parfait

  Nobuhiro Suwa

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Japanese director Nobuhiro Suwa has a very patient, observational style. He dealt with the slow dissolution of a relationship in his last f...

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  Three Times

  Hou Hsiao-Hsien

  PUBLISHED Jan 1, 2006

  Taking place at key moments in Taiwan's history, Three Times tells three love stories that are all fairly typical of director Hou Hsiao-Hsi...