Seriously. It's funny, I was thinking as I was writing up the new Criterion disc of Peter Yates' 1973 The Friends of Eddie Coyle, that Coyle could actually have been that…
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Honestly, guys, I was contemplating posting something about Bill (as I call him) Conrad well before Seattle-based "film critic" and all around dribbling loon N.P. Thompson pronounced that I bear…
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...(and it really is pretty complete and utter—I see Armond White's contemptuous review of it, David Poland's silly chin-scratching on it, Karina Longworth's admission of admiration for Chris Pine's butt,…
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"Young film fans raised in the multiplex era might look back and lament the fact that no one is making movies like The Friends of Eddie Coyle anymore,"…
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I understand that everybody's allowed their own interpretation of, like, stuff, but I have to admit I'm a little bemused by some of the reviewers who seem to believe that…
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Over the weekend I had a mostly wonderful time doing something I would rather not have been doing: commemorating the life and work of David Foster Wallace, who took his…
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