The new Sight and Sound rounds up a group of film critics who weigh in on the works of criticism that have had the greatest impact on them. Michael Atkinson…
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So My Lovely Wife and I are having breakfast and she's got the box on, and that Meg Ryan movie When A Man Loves A Woman is playing on Oxygen,…
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Complaining that the Coen Brothers can be a little too smart-alecky is like bitching that de Sica was excessively humanistic: more than a little obvious, and completely beside the point.…
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Over at The Auteur's Notebook, I look at Pier Paolo Pasolini's infamous Salo, or The 120 Days of Sodom and conclude that if it works at all, it's as a…
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As some of you who have followed my work over the years may have noticed, not only am I not at the Toronto International Film Festival this year, but this…
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As a white, male, American heterosexual approaching the age of 50 (don't worry, I'm not gonna whine about how I'm oppressed) I have a simultaneously dim and vivid memory of…
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