Call me paranoid, but I was beginning to get a little apprehensive of a "is this a blog about movies, or a blog about slagging movie critics?" backlash, so I…
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Jean Renoir, La Règle du jeu (The Rules of the Game), Renoir, 1939 (which can "eat it!")
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Despite various sins against criticism, and the fact that I am sometimes moved to pity by the wailing and gnashing of teeth of my younger confreres, I've never felt moved…
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I wasn't all that surprised that Dolphin Tale was better than Killer Elite; while both films feature veteran talents working in genres/modes in which they have at times been fully…
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I remember Lee Lipsenthal insisting that I sample the crab in black bean sauce at Lin's China Garden on Bayard Street, the unholy mess produced by that meal notwithstanding, because…
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