FILM
July/August 2010
Woody Allen's new film revisits his old haunts on the Upper West Side. But it's a bit of a let-down
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June 2010
Films about psychoanalysis are ten a penny. Despite Kevin Spacey, this one doesn't raise a laugh
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May 2010
Another new movie pokes fun at our fear of jihadists. But suicide bombers are not Dad’s Army
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April 2010
David Baddiel's new film, The Infidel, proves Ayatollah Khomeini was right: there is no humour in (or about) Islam
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Written each month by Standpoint's regular film critic, Peter Whittle, and occasional guest columnists
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