Americans and their perverse obsession with happy endings. Especially during the holidays. Everybody’s Fine is a remake of an Italian film by director Giuseppe Tornatore (who made the wondrous Cinema Paradiso). In it, a retired Sicilian bureaucrat, played by the great Marcello Mastroianni, heads to the mainland to surprise his five children, only to find [...]

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You know those singular movies that inspire critics and screenwriters to make sycophantic fools of themselves, gushing about lean, perfectly streamlined scripts that have absolutely no unnecessary or redundant scenes and contain only lines of dialogue that move the script forward at an impeccable clip? Yeah, well, Whiteout is not one of those movies.

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