When you buy a ticket to a movie called Pompeii, expecting art or even brains would be fatuous; what you want is a good time. Sue me for confessing I had one.
Movies
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A Monumental Failure
Honestly, who on earth thought George Clooney’s The Monuments Men was a good idea for a movie?
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Campaigns and the Human Condition
“Mitt” reminds us that seeing a candidate’s “true” self is impossible, no matter who he is.
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Falling Down the Rabbit Hole of NYC’s Lena Dunham Obsession
It’s a dark place.
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Why Are So Many People Still Protective of Woody Allen?
Ronan and Mia Farrow took to Twitter to express their outrage after the director was honored at Sunday’s Golden Globes, but why hasn’t he gotten more grief from the film-world establishment?
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Pope Francis’s “Cardinal” Rules
Thinking about Otto Preminger’s film 50 years later in the context of Pope Francis.
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Peter O’Toole, Always in Character
The actor, who died earlier this week at the age of 81, turned every role into a feat of concentrated charm and wit.
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“Spring Breakers” Was the Best Movie of the Year. Seriously.
It was imbecilic but gorgeous—just like America.
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The Coen Brothers’ Goodbye Song
Inside Llewyn Davis deepens the duo’s turn from satire to elegy
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Another Note for the Bettie Page Files
A new documentary, Bettie Page Reveals All, provides not only a bonanza of images of the proto-hipster pinup girl in her prime, but her later-in-life musings as well.
