Over at The Prospect, Noy reviews the Oscar-winning foreign film The Lives of Others. I don’t really know how to talk about movies I really, really like and still make it interesting, but this is a year when the best foreign flick easily beat out the best picture (The Departed), and even though the main character looks unsettlingly like Steven Seagal, you should go see The Lives of Others as quickly as possible.

Ezra Klein is a former Prospect writer and current editor-in-chief at Vox. His work has appeared in the LA Times, The Guardian, The Washington Monthly, The New Republic, Slate, and The Columbia Journalism Review. He’s been a commentator on MSNBC, CNN, NPR, and more.