Ella Taylor

Albert Pierrepoint, the Lancashire grocery deliveryman who doubled as England’s most prolific and self-effacing executioner between 1934 and 1956, was not, as the title of Adrian Shergold’s new drama suggests, Britain’s last hangman, but he was certainly its most diligent. For two decades, Pierrepoint secretly hanged more than 400 men......

The sound of beating wings grows louder and ever symbolically louder in Bug, a daft exercise in superfluous hysteria by William Friedkin. Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Is it the military-industrial complex? Or is it just an army of unwelcome aphids burrowing under the skin of a......

The Irish romance Once is one of those urban fairy tales you come out of not wanting to switch on your car radio, make small talk or do anything but shelter in its beguiling ambiance for as long as you can to avoid re-entering the real world. In real life,......

{mosimage} Three noisy women and a worn-out premise rattle around trying to make contact in Georgia Rule, an incoherent dramedy of rampant parental insufficiency from director Garry Marshall. Marshall’s penchant for broad comedy has always made him a soft target for critics, but along with his duds (Beaches, Runaway Bride......

One of the most critically acclaimed movies of 2006, director Cristi Puiu’s black comedy of Romanian manners and morals came and went so quickly from local theaters that few had a chance to see it. Now it’s back for a weekend-long return engagement at the American Cinematheque. Dante Lazarescu is......

There’s a photograph of Sarah Polley, who has been acting for 23 of her 28 years, in her debut role in the Disney movie One Magic Christmas. The still is enormously endearing, less because the 4-year-old looks adorable in blond bangs and a woolly cap than because her lower lip......