Articles by James Luscombe

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  Fantastic Four

  Tim Story

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Reading Fantastic Four comics as a kid, there were a lot of things that never occurred to me, like, "Geez, the Thing is supposed to be made...

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  Bewitched

  Nora Ephron

  PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2005

  Ripe for social satire, the original TV show Bewitched always had a wonky anti-feminism core. Samantha was a witch with seemingly omnipoten...

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  5 x 2 - Cinq Fois Deux

  Francois Ozon

  PUBLISHED Jun 1, 2005

  Francois Ozon calls 5 x 2 his version of Scenes from a Marriage, and while his film is quite polished and well-written, his self-aggrandisi...

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  Palindromes

  Todd Solondz

  PUBLISHED May 1, 2005

  Palindromes is Todd Solondz's most difficult movie yet. It's a Little Red Riding Hood story that's as formally rigorous as a Godard film, a...

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  Tarnation

  Jonathan Caouette

  PUBLISHED Feb 1, 2005

  Maybe this is as close as we'll get to seeing the workings of someone's mind shaped into a movie. Jonathan Caouette has a story to tell (hi...

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  Sideways

  Alexander Payne

  PUBLISHED Nov 1, 2004

  Alexander Payne is the poet laureate of male self-delusion. His characters, from Mr. McAllister in Election to Jack Nicholson's Schmidt, ar...

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  Tarnation

  Jonathan Caouette

  PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2004

  Maybe this is as close as we'll get to seeing the workings of someone's mind shaped into a movie. Jonathan Caouette has a story to tell (hi...

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  Godsend

  Nick Hamm

  PUBLISHED Apr 1, 2004

  Godsend is so mediocre that one could be forgiven for thinking it was made by people who were just sick to death of making movies. The whol...