”Waterland” is one more British feature that seems to have been shaped more by the demands of international marketing than any artistic impulse. It combines a best-selling British novel (Graham ...

Tom Crick, the middle-aged high school history teacher in “Waterland,” drifts haplessly in and out of recollections of his traumatic childhood in England’s Fens, the mysterious marshlands that meet ...

Nobody unravels like Jeremy Irons.He doesn’t just wilt or fade or become slightly woozy and call out for the vapors; no, he deconstructs with the rueful inevitability of the collapse of the empire.