WARNING: This piece should only be read after you've seen The Wolf of Wall Street. Thanks. Writing about the Randy Newman album Born Again in 1978, the critic Robert Christgau…
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“Once, my father told me that the difference between the average Briton and the average American was that a Briton looks at a man driving a Ferrari and thinks, 'What…
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The ensemble of American Hustle, beloved of David O. Russell, and why not: Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper, Jeremy Renner, Christian Bale, Jennifer Lawrence. In an interview last winter with Mary…
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...is Joel and Ethan Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis. Granted, I'm seeing Wolf of Wall Street this afternoon, but even if I love Martin Scorsese's new picture, it will probably not…
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"Charlie Countryman," starring Shia LaBeouf, for whom I have no sympathy, and Evan Rachel Wood, for whom I have some sympathy, is a capital-B Bad Movie which I review for…
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Been kind of crushed with both work and panic over work, so I've neglected to post links to my latest reviews at RogerEbert.com. Here they are, of How I Live…
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