Did he hate women? Individually ... Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston. Parts of "A Farewell to Arms" could have been written by a woman. Now, I regard that as a compliment.

A Farewell to Arms is a corking flicker [from the novel by Ernest Hemingway]. Director Frank Borzage skims over two hyper-delicate situations with deftness and ingenuity.

But sweep and frankness alone don't make a great picture; and Farewell suffers from an overdose of both. New version of the Ernest Hemingway World War I story conveys some of the Hemingway spirit ...