Whether affixed with bumper stickers that say War Is Hell or Be Kind To Animals, "War Horse" plods through a well-trod turf. The nadir of the fable is a mawkish vignette that drops Joey into the arms of a French farmer’s sugar-sweet granddaughter who seems airlifted in from a 1930s Deanna Durbin movie. By the time the…

"Melancholia may be the most depressing film of the year—excepting perhaps x-rays at a cancer clinic. Part psychodrama, part sci-fi, Von Trier's intriguing but portentous
end-of-the-world fantasy had me checking my watch, not the Mayan
calendar.