Hazanavicius won Oscars for The Artist but Redoubtable is unlikely to repeat the feat. It’s a witty but determinedly superficial affair that rarely rises above the level of pastiche. As a ...

I shan’t spoil the witty way the movie’s newscast-derived title — and the catchphrase “Such was life aboard the Redoubtable” — comes into play and furnishes a perfect finish.

Adapted from Anne Wiazemsky’s memoir Un an Après (one year later), Redoubtable charters the actress’s relationship with director Jean-Luc Godard at the height of his political activism during ...

The redoubtable Simon Van Booy has performed another small literary miracle. In fact, smallness matters exceptionally in his new novel. Its protagonist — rather, its supporting actor — is a mouse.

This is not how it’s supposed to end. Not with Seán Quigley, the master of the finale, for the last two weeks he has been a punk-band drummer bashing out trash-can endings, he has been the ...