From Puerto Rico, Sudor Amargo (Bitter Sweat), by Sonia Valentín, is about the responses of women workers to the imminent closing, due to high operational costs, of the fish-cleaning factory at which they work. The U.S. owner is shipping the factory down to South America, where, among other benefits to him, wages are lower. The […]

Mike Hodges’s I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead, a depressed, no-key South London noir about rape, suicide and fraternal revenge, is one of the most dispiriting movies I’ve seen. The spectacle of Malcolm McDowell buggering Jonathan Rhys-Meyers tramples on too many sacred movie memories and adds a loathsome draught of homophobia into the mix. Clive Owen […]

The documentary Unconstitutional, by Nonny de la Peña, gives the Patriot Act a sound drubbing. It is beautifully structured. The most difficult thing involved in structuring such a work is to order its parts in such a way as to do two things simultaneously: achieve continuity, with each component leading logically to the next, and […]