Alan A. Stone

Alan A. Stone (1929–2022) was Touroff–Glueck Professor of Law and Psychiatry at Harvard Law School. Many of his film reviews are collected in Movies and the Moral Adventure of Life.

A Different Drum

Tom McCarthy's The Visitor.

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Badlands

The Coen brothers' No Country for Old Men Miramax Films (2007)

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The Cure

David Cronenberg’s new film, A Dangerous Method.

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No Redemption

Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood Paramount Vantage (2007)

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Modern Hell

Sidney Lumets's Before the Devil Knows You're Dead.

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Making Monsters

In the Valley of Elah, directed by Paul Haggis.

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Unbeatable Odds

On Rescue Dawn, directed by Werner Herzog.

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A Care in the World

Away From Her directed by Sarah Polley.

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Living Together

Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing

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Any Human Heart

A review of Alejandro Alejandro González Iñárritu's Babel.

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Good Will

Stranger than Fiction is an unexpectedly delightful film that brings whimsy and grown-up humor back to the movies.

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Enduring Love

André Téchiné’s Changing Times.

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A Forbidden Hope

Reviewing Deepa Mehta’s Water.

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Unknowable

Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne's L'Enfant.

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Judgment Day

The Academy’s voters rejected Brokeback Mountain, but the film marks an important moment in Hollywood history.

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Happy Endings

Pride and Prejudice directed by Joe Wright.

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Trapped

Nine Lives directed by Rodrigo García.

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Choosing Love

The Beat That My Heart Skipped, directed by Jacques Audiard.

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Explaining Love Away

Kings and Queen, directed by Arnaud Desplechin.

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Redeeming Shylock

Michael Radford's The Merchant of Venice.
 

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For God and Country

Two Henry Vs.

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See No Evil

On Hero, directed by Zhang Yimou.

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Lawless

Bad Education, directed by Pedro Almodóvar.

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The End of Remorse?

The Passion of the Christ, directed by Mel Gibson. 

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