I certainly had high expectations for The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo going in. Granted, we’ve all been burned by unsuccessful movie-to-book adaptations before, usually because the filmmakers got lazy and didn’t quite change en...

Like most people, I was dubious at first about Guy Ritchie’s Sherlock Holmes back in 2009. The idea of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s master sleuth being turned into an action hero seemed like some kind of cultural sacrilege. But whe...

Something so unexpected happens halfway through Love Crime, the final film by the late French director Alain Corneau, that you’re left wondering how the story can keep its legs throughout until the end. Consequently, the first ...