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February 6, 2014
David Thomson
Clooney's 'The Monuments Men' Is Dreadful, Smug, and Incoherent
January 2, 2014
Isaac Chotiner
The Silly Liberal Attacks on 'The Wolf of Wall Street'
December 30, 2013
Jason Farago
'Her' is the Scariest Movie of 2013
December 12, 2013
David Thomson
'American Hustle' Is Scorsese Played for Laughs
November 7, 2013
Kathryn Olson
Map: Blockbuster Video Isn't Dead Yet—in Other Countries, Anyway
November 6, 2013
Alice Robb
America: Celebrities Can Make a Real-World Difference, But Few Do (Chart)
October 11, 2013
Ryan Kearney
Captain Phillips Will Pummel You Into Submission
You won't even notice Tom Hanks's awful Boston accent.
October 9, 2013
Stanley Kauffmann
A Jolly Good Fellini
July 13, 1963
August 12, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Hollywood Is in Trouble, and We're All Going to Pay
August 6, 2013
Isaac Chotiner
Johnny Depp's Delusions About Why 'The Lone Ranger' Flopped
August 6, 2013
Noreen Malone
The End of Leading Men
Why do A-list actors' films keep flopping?
July 22, 2013
Marc Tracy
Nate Silver is About to Take All the Fun Out of Oscar Night
March 4, 2013
Carrie Battan
#Fail
Hollywood Doesn't Understand New Media
February 19, 2013
Thomas Hackett
The Racism of 'Beasts of the Southern Wild'
February 15, 2013
David Thomson
The Adverse Side Effects of Steven Soderbergh's Movie Career
February 5, 2013
Eric Sasson
Hollywood Can't Handle Gay Sex
Tinseltown supports LGBT rights everywhere but the big screen.
June 27, 2008
Christopher Orr
The Movie Review: ‘Wall·E’
Pixar’s funny, touching masterpiece may be their finest film yet.
November 10, 1997
MagazineStanley Kauffmann
Boogie Nights, Reviewed
Paul Thomas Anderson's second feature moves us into a terrain where the moral scale is unabashedly different from the rest of the world’s.
November 14, 1994
Stanley Kauffmann
Shooting Up
A review of Quentin Tarantino's "Pulp Fiction"
August 8, 1994
Stanley Kauffmann
Different
Film reviews of 'Forrest Gump' and 'Francois Truffaut: Stolen Portraits'

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