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AMERICA IS IN DECLINE: SIGNS, CAUSES, AND IMPLICATIONS FOR GLOBAL POLITICS
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The 10 Best Movies of 2010
July 6, 2025Any year in which a movie this perfect has legitimate competition for Best Film of the...
Movies
Brilliant Character Actor Pete Postlethwaite Dead at 64
July 6, 2025Rest in peace, sir. You may have known him as “that guy,” or “Kobayashi,” or “Father...
The Fourth Wall
The Weekly Listicle: The Best of Christmas on Television
July 6, 2025“A very merry Christmas, and a happy New Year, let’s hope it’s a good one, without...
Thrillers
The Weekly Listicle: Parties For A New Year
July 4, 2025In the spirit of celebration, we take a moment to remember some of our favorite movie...
Movies
Movie Review: True Grit
July 4, 2025Offered her choice of disciplined and fair-minded bounty hunters to help her find the killer, she...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2010
July 4, 2025Our annual selection of noteworthy books.
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Port Mortuary by Patricia Cornwell
July 4, 2025Whatever her faults, you can’t criticise Patricia Cornwell for sticking in a rut. Port Mortuary, her...
Crime Fiction
Brighton Rock Rises Again. Graham Greene Abides.
July 4, 2025Acclaimed screenwriter Rowan Joffé will try his hand at the directing game next year. For his...
Movies
Movie Review: How Do You Know
July 4, 2025Reese Witherspoon and Paul Rudd do not always make great movies, but when given the chance...
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The Weekly Listicle: The 10 Best Videogame Movies AREN’T Based On Videogames
July 4, 2025So where exactly are the good videogame movies? They’re everywhere, if you know where to look....
Movies
Movie Review: TRON: Legacy
July 3, 2025Disney’s sequel is an immense, vividly hued carnival for the eyes. What it lacks in smart...
Dance
Dance Review: San Francisco Ballet’s Nutcracker
July 3, 2025For sheer production values, though, the San Francisco Ballet Nutcracker remains at the top of the...
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The Weekly Listicle: Winter flicks to make you shiver!
July 3, 2025People watch movies for all kinds of reasons. We watch them to laugh, to jump, to...
Architecture
Farewell to the Future: Iconic “Sleeper” House is Foreclosed On
July 3, 2025By 1973, the “technological faith, confidence, and competence” Hines sees embodied in the modernism of the...
Best Books
A Watchful Eye On… Sherlock Holmes
July 2, 2025Sherlock Holmes as a strict Victorian period piece is over and done with, but the character...
Movies
Movie Review: The Tourist
July 2, 2025The Tourist is the kind of cinematic perfection that doesn’t get lauded too often. It’s too...
Performing Arts
Tom Russell: American Primitive Man
July 2, 2025Every Tom Russell song has something to say about the human heart. In each voice he...
Movies
Movie Review: The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the Dawn Treader
July 2, 2025Narnia is a world in which children’s voices are heard, in which the young acquire agency...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Disney’s Epic Mickey
July 1, 2025In a delightful introduction, Mickey sneaks into the magical hobbyshop of the wizard from Fantasia, Yen...
Dance
Dance Review: Alvin Ailey Offers Anointed, The Hunt, Cry and Revelations
July 1, 2025Luckily, Robert Battle needs no anointing. His choreography speaks for itself. In the company premiere of...
Movies & TV
100 Greatest Gangster Films: The Godfather, #1
December 20, 2025The Godfather made careers, most notably those of Francis Ford Coppola and Al Pacino, despite the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Percy Jackson The Olympians: The Lightning Thief
September 25, 2026For many years now Chris Columbus and I have had an understanding: He can suck as...
Movies
In Defense of The Social Network: Movie demonizes sexism, doesn’t glamorize it.
October 16, 2026Fiction vs. reality: Eisenberg and Zuckerberg. First things first: I’m in the business of paying close...
Fiction Reviews
Book Review: Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak
October 18, 2026Pasternak ranges the individualism of Zhivago against the heartless society that is being erected by the...
Movies
Catching Up With 2010: Marmaduke
October 9, 2026A scant few minutes into Marmaduke there’s a fart joke. Right after this fart joke Marmaduke...
Movies
All Of This Will Happen Again: Step Up 2 The Streets Revisited!
October 5, 2026Earlier this week we took a look at the first Step Up, the hit machine that...
After Image
Larry Rivers, NYU, and Child Pornography
September 27, 2026How should we respond, however, when sexual abuse is the subject of a piece and a...
Art
Art Review: Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy and Germany, 1918-1936
October 14, 2026Chaos and Classicism tells the story of good intentions that went terribly wrong. After the carnage...
Movies
Movie Review: Step Up 3D
October 3, 2026Step Up 3D is a good movie. Not an instant classic, but a genuine celebration of...
Video Games
Video Game Review: Assassin’s Creed Brotherhood
October 22, 2026Oddly enough, it’s this great multiplayer mode that most throws the rest of the game into...
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Mad (wo)Men: The Complexity of Womanhood in “Mad Men”
October 11, 2026The cast of AMC’s “Mad Men:” Vincent Kartheiser, Elisabeth Moss, John Slattery, Jon Hamm, January Jones,...
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