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December 20, 2013
David Thomson
'Saving Mr. Banks' Is a Two-Hour Disney Commercial
December 17, 2013
David Thomson
Remembering Peter O'Toole
December 6, 2013
David Thomson
The Coen Brothers' New Movie Might Be Their Most Boring
'Inside Llewyn Davis' is a moody misstep
December 4, 2013
Christopher Beam
China Doesn't Want You to See This Year's Best Chinese Film
Luckily, I saw it in the U.S.
December 1, 2013
Peter W. Kaplan
Cahiers du Reagan
From TNR, November 1, 1980
November 24, 2013
David Thomson
Is Paolo Sorrentino Like Fellini? Even Better.
"The Great Beauty" and "Bastards" reviewed
November 23, 2013
David Thomson
Why Didn't an American Make '12 Years a Slave'?
November 21, 2013
David Thomson
Alexander Payne Has Mastered the Midwest. Now He Must Move to the Big City.
November 10, 2013
Stanley Kauffmann
Half a Century at the Movies
From the writings of Stanley Kauffmann
November 9, 2013
Stanley Kauffmann
Stanley Kauffmann's Final Film Review
On 'Nicky's Family,' 'The Artist and the Model' and 'The Act of Killing'
November 8, 2013
David Thomson
Matthew McConaughey Has Transformed From Texas Pretty Boy to Twisted Loner
November 5, 2013
Michael Washburn
Appalachia Used to Be Simply Scary. Now Its Hipness Is Frightening.
November 2, 2013
Victoria Beale
Naomi Watts Takes On the Insufferable Cult of Diana
October 24, 2013
David Thomson
Cormac McCarthy's Disastrous Hollywood Debut
October 23, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Why Can't Critics Deal With Films About Slavery?
October 22, 2013
Laura Bennett
Is the Onion’s Film Criticism Better Than Its News Satire?
October 17, 2013
Alan Rusbridger
I Was a Character in The Fifth Estate—Here's What the Wikileaks Film Got Right and Wrong
Geeks versus the government
October 17, 2013
Marc Tracy
The World Needs More Wes Andersons
October 11, 2013
Dorothy Wickenden
Editorially Infallible: A Tribute to Stanley Kauffmann
October 11, 2013
Ryan Kearney
Captain Phillips Will Pummel You Into Submission
You won't even notice Tom Hanks's awful Boston accent.

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