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Video Game Review: Bayonetta
August 15, 2026She also wears glasses, which may pass for originality these days but is thematically appropriate because...
Art
Portraiture Now: Communities at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
August 15, 2026The astonishing amount of detail, the tremendous amount of work that went into crafting the tiny...
Movies
Some Like It Hot: The Official 50th Anniversary Companion by Laurence Maslon
August 14, 2026There’s plenty about Monroe, of course — her perpetual lateness to the set, her entourage (especially...
Fiction Reviews
You or Someone Like You by Chandler Burr
August 14, 2026The religious and cultural tensions present in this book, while controversial, are always handled with grace...
Art
Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968–2008 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
August 14, 2026In Roberto Cuoghi’s 2006 portrait of Davide Halevim, one of the highlights of the section entitled...
Movies
The Top 10 Movies of 2009
August 14, 2026At the end, she’s back at square one leading the student life, but inside, she’s grown...
Movies
Movie Review: Sherlock Holmes
August 13, 2026Ritchie, whose previous films Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels and Snatch are cult favorites, brings...
Fiction Reviews
Last Night in Twisted River by John Irving
August 13, 2026For Last Night in Twisted River is the work of a seasoned tale-teller, a writer who...
Movies
The 10 Best Movies of the Decade (2000-2009)
August 13, 2026Wong Kar-wai’s beautiful tone poem is an ode to unrequited and impossible love. Its brilliant color...
Fiction Reviews
The Ghost King: Transitions III by R. A. Salvatore
August 13, 2026A fast-paced, heartrending book, The Ghost King is a must-read for any fans of the Drizzt...
Non-Fiction Reviews
Critics’ Picks: Best Books of 2009
August 13, 2026Our annual selection of noteworthy books.
Movies
Movie Review: Nine
August 12, 2026Marshall apparently strove for the early 60s New Wave Cinema feel, which relied heavily on shaky...
Fiction Reviews
Generosity: An Enhancement by Richard Powers
August 12, 2026What’s remarkable about her is that she shares her story with the class simply, with a...
Movies
Movie Review: The Princess and the Frog
August 12, 2026Cinderella and Snow White are famously hardworking Disney princesses, but they were enslaved as a punishment...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Thirty Years War: Europe’s Tragedy by Peter H. Wilson
August 12, 2026In some respects, the Thirty Years War resembles the Great War of 1914-1918. Political friction in...
Movies
Movie Review: Avatar
August 11, 2026The story and script fail to create multifaceted characters, sticking instead to the inherent malevolence of...
Movies
Movie Review: A Single Man
August 11, 2026Based on Christopher Isherwood’s novel, the film is set in the 1960s and takes place over...
Non-Fiction Reviews
The Imperial Cruise: A Secret History of Empire and War by James Bradley
August 11, 2026James Bradley doesn't like Theodore Roosevelt. Let's get that clear from the get-go. Nor does he...
Art
Tim Burton at MoMA
August 11, 2026Predictably, Tim Burton is already a wildly popular show. As throngs of families, film buffs and...
Fiction Reviews
Matchless by Gregory Maguire
August 10, 2026Matchless was originally composed by Maguire for the radio, and the story retains a sense 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...
The Fourth Wall
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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