"Hollywood or Bust is to The Girl Can't Help It as —making due allowance—L'ecole des femmes is to Le Misanthrope. Taking Howard Hawks' beloved theme of a journey (although the…
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...just once. Just once. Really. Just once I'd like to see one of the Twitterific Kidcrits,™ or even one or two of their venerated elders, file a review that reads…
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I see that there's quite a bit of consternation, and now what they call "debate," over a rather vile collection of words assembled by one Ramin Setoodeh for Newsweek. Allow…
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Believe it or not—and I know you want to believe it, really I do—I'm not too often prone to professional jealousy. My dislikes and resentments, and I admit, they are…
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Manohla Dargis on Kick-Ass. J. Hoberman on World on a Wire. (Although it's not Ingrid Caven. Still, my own error in this respect was worse.)
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...to my pal Stephanie Zacherek, who's just been announced as the lead critic for Movieline, the bold web resuscitation of the print organ. While we've had our substantive differences of…
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