But it’s an endearing, even haunting film from one of cinema’s most inventive artists, one who manages to bend even the hoariest B-movie tropes to his idiosyncratic, deeply humanistic imagination.

With “Elvis,” Luhrmann matches Presley’s drive and instinctive charisma and raises him for sheer nerve, simultaneously hewing to the hoariest conventions of Hollywood rise-and-fall biopics ...

He did so by wheeling out one of the hoariest cliches in politics: Young people = foolish lefty idealists; old people = sensible right-wing realists. "Look, Newsnight is made by 13-year-olds," he ...

To do so, and not inform you (or my editor), would have defined that hoariest of contemporary clichés, the “slippery slope.” Over the past several years of volunteering for various boards and ...