When I was in 8th grade, we read S.E. Hinton’s The Outsiders, then took a field trip to […]
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Philip Seymour Hoffman is magnificent as German intelligence agent Günther Bachmann in A Most Wanted Man. The movie […]
It is an unfortunate coincidence that on the same day I posted an essay which discussed my own […]
My first reaction after The One I Love was, “That was kind of brilliant.” I’ll stand by the […]
The appeal of Elaine Stritch has always been just out of my reach – I understand that people […]
I’d love to say They Came Together has enough good material to make a 2-minute trailer, but I […]
…(F)or me, the movies are like a machine that generates empathy. It lets you understand a little bit […]
It’s tempting to refer to Don Jon as “Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s masturbation comedy,” as some critics did when it […]
I’m not convinced Twenty Feet from Stardom deserves all of the awards it received (many of them, including […]
When Martin Scorsese’s Goodfellas was released in 1990, many of us were jazzed by the attitude and movielove […]
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