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AMERICAN RADICAL: THE TRIALS OF NORMAN FINKELSTEIN Noam Chomsky reveres him. Leon Wieseltier hates him. Alan Dershowitz called him an anti-Semite... More >>
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Akira Kurosawa's great autumnal Mount Fuji of a film, Ran (1985) shouldn't require an introduction — it landed with a popular ker-blam here... More >>
ALICE IN WONDERLAND One wonders what Walt Disney would've made of his studio's 21st-century, 19-year-old Alice — a tousle-haired 3-D action... More >>
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It's not often that Kevin Smith finds himself speechless. In fact, he's made a living off his gift of gab: Between directorial efforts he does... More >>
Greenberg: Los Angeles Plays Itself
Sad, funny and acutely self-conscious, Noah Baumbach's new movie is the sort of mordant character study that people imagine was common in the '70s. Greenberg is unafraid to project a… More >>
The Other Renoir
Asked to describe The Rules of the Game to an indecisive cowboy in the Coen brothers' hilarious short World Cinema (look for it on YouTube), a movie-theater cashier — a… More >>
Twisted Sisters: The Runaways on Empty
There's an obvious stunt element to the casting of The Runaways: a punked-up, barely legal Kristen Stewart and a still underage, barely dressed Dakota Fanning begging for street cred by… More >>
THE BOUNTY HUNTER You've followed their packaged romance in the supermarket checkout Christine Baranski — now see the movie. Jennifer Aniston's hair plays a New York Daily News crime reporter… More >>
Driving Mr. Greenberg
Noah Baumbach is 40 years old. He just learned how to drive. A native New Yorker, the writer/director started spending time in Los Angeles when dating Jennifer Jason Leigh, now… More >>
Ghosts of a Filmmaker's Past
Roman Polanski's The Ghost Writer is one of his masterpieces — relentless in its suspense; funny when you least expect it; above all, deeply conscious of political power and its… More >>
Stranger Than Fiction: The Hurt Locker's Many Surprises
The 82nd Academy Awards offered a referendum on what Oscar voters value versus what moviegoers are willing to pay for. Kathryn Bigelow's stunning, groundbreaking achievement as the first woman… More >>
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Camp Apocalypse
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Alice in Chains: Tim Burton in La-La Land
Between the candy-colored, kid-friendly billboards sprinkled across urban areas and the hipster music blogs hyping soundtrack contributions from the Cure's Robert Smith, it's been hard to peg exactly whom Tim… More >>
