Simi Horwitz

Ethnic identity politics, searching for “home” and borders (literal and metaphorical) are thematic motifs throughout KINO!, a festival of new German films to be held at New York City’s newest art-house cinema, the Landmark Theatres at 57th Street, April 6-12. After more than 30 years at the...

This well-acted, engaging film about two young French-Jewish brothers fleeing German-occupied France during the Holocaust years regrettably offers no new insights on the well-worn topic.

An uncompromising view of a disintegrating marriage in a morally bankrupt Russian world, its truthfulness not easy to watch but compelling throughout.

Nobody thinks wee Shirley Temple, awash in ringlets, is adorable today. By contemporary standards, she’s a mutant. Not unlike Tiny Tim or, for that matter (speaking of Dickens), Little Nell. To quote Oscar Wilde, always way ahead of his time, “One must have a heart of stone to read the death of...