Kevin Kline, a major actor who should know better, does the Robin Williams thing as Mr. Hundert, a classics prof who uses the Greek and Roman emperors to build character in young minds. One pupil (Emile Hirsch) is impervious to Mr. Hundert's opus. Even twenty-five years later, with Kline in old-age makeup, hard lessons are still being taught. Director Michael Hoffman sprays on the tears like a toxic mist. Avoid like the plague.

“The Everchanging Spectrum of a Lie”

The opener off the Welsh group’s The Big Roar album was an epic one, but the band was worried that track had polarized fans. “The first song is eight minutes long,” Rhydian Dafydd, the Joy Formidable bassist, said. “If you did that in the Seventies people would be, ‘Whatever.’ You do it now, people think, ‘Holy s---!’ Some people think it’s the f---ing greatest track on the entire album, and some people think it’s f---ing boring. It’s that element of needing to challenge people.” The band concluded through the song’s lyrics that love was the “everchanging spectrum of a lie.”