I suppose I owe Steven Soderbergh a drink, or a bottle, or a fancy foreign-region Blu-ray disc or something. For a variety of reasons I am, as it happens, personally…
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I consider it slightly odd that a film website as august as Moving Image Source would devote so much space to a consideration of Ross Douthat, a young triple-dealing conservative…
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"Teachers of Literature are apt to think up such problems as 'What is the author's purpose' or still worse 'What is the guy trying to say?'"—Vladimir Nabokov, "On a Book…
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In my first piece for The A/V Club, a "For Our Consideration" late-game defense of Steve McQueen's film about addiction. Comments over there are already getting, um, exciting, so add…
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You will search Kael’s collected work in vain for a theory, a system, or even a consistent set of principles.—A.O. Scott, “Mad About Her: Pauline Kael, Loved and Loathed”…
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So Slate has started a "culture blog," called "Browbeat," get it?, and it seems pretty much as delightful as you'd expect. And yesterday over at said blog David Haglund put…
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