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Everybody hates it when they don't explain everything that happened by the time the movie is over. What we need at the end is not open-endedness but clarity, loose-end tying-up, closure. We need more movies like "Psycho" (unfortunately Simon Oakland has passed, but Larry King is still ...
Celebrities
Ten years after its release, there are still plenty of people who will not get David Fincher's "Fight Club" because they refuse to see what is in front of their eyes. They think it's about a cult of men who get together to punch each other, which is like saying "Citizen Kane" is about a ...
Movies
Fight Club
Love Story
Nobody has ever satisfactorily explained what is supposedly "ambiguous" about the ending of "No Country for Old Men," which has one of the most exquisitely judged denouements in movie history. (" A Serious Man ," too.) So, what is it, precisely, that some folks need explained or ...
Celebrities
No Country for Old Men
A Serious Man
The Wrestler
The Graduate
The Sopranos
Stop by one of the most-loved movie blogs on the Intertubes and give Dennis your best! Several of us already have, as you can see when you get there...
Movies
The Dennis
See more ("Up in the Air," "Little Miss Sunshine," "Madea Goes to Jail") at The Auteurs , where Adrian Curry writes:
Two of my favorite posters of recent years, those for "Margot at the Wedding" (2007) and "Funny Games" U.S. (2008) both used versions of Helvetica to great effect. ...
Movies
Funny Games
Little Miss Sunshine
Margot at the Wedding
Remember last Independence Day when the (then-)governor of Alaska posed for a (psychologically) revealing photo spread in Runner's World Magazine ? (Check out the whole photo spread>series .) I posted the photo above, which has now been recycled as the cover photo for this week's Newsweek ...
Celebrities
Independence Day
Alaska
Sarah Palin
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published here .)
Movies
Star Trek
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published , here .)
Movies
AMC's re-do of the classic British TV series " The Prisoner " gets under way Sunday night, following the conclusion of "Mad Men"'s third season last week. The new version stars Jim Caviezel as Number Six and Ian McKellen as Number Two. (The great Leo McKern played Number Two a couple ...
Television
Mad Men
Ian McKellen
Leonardo DiCaprio
Without making a big deal of it, New York Times critic A.O. Scott slyly slips several sharp observations about the role of movie critics into this paragraph from his review of " The Fantastic Mr. Fox ":
Is it is a movie for children? This inevitable question depends on the assumption ...
Movies
The Fantastic Mr. Fox
Yes it is, I'm afraid. Or almost. Good grief, I know, it's not even Thanksgiving yet and they've already got the festive "Best Of" decorations up in the stores! And I know lots of critics who've been told by their editors to start working on their big '00s lists -- so, reluctantly, I've ...
Movies
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Slumdog Millionaire
WGA strike / Antonioni edition. (No dialog, no actors except the quick mug shots of Dylan personae from " I'm Not There .")
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published here .)
Movies
I'm Not There
"When in uniform I have to be the exact same as everyone else, I need to look exactly like them."
-- a soldier in "Tattooed Under Fire"
As a person of ink (and I'm not just referring to the stuff that runs through my newspaperman veins, but to my eight tattoos -- so far), I know how ...
Movies
Now engaged in a marathon publicity junket for his new film "Up in the Air," director Jason Reitman ("Juno," "Thank You For Smoking") has been flying around the country doing interviews. Lots of interviews. Gang-bang interviews (as they are known in the trade) and one-on-ones. Through the ...
Celebrities
Jason Reitman
Juno
Roger Ebert
In a reply to what he feels is a misleading (nay, delusional) review of his essay film " Poliwood " by New York Times TV critic Alessandra Stanley, Barry Levinson offers this sound advice :
To reiterate, criticism is a part of a filmmaker's journey. Any time you attempt to tackle a ...
Movies
Barry Levinson
(Finding and reposting many video essays lost when iKlipz went under. This one was originally published here .)
Movies
Another in a series of video essays that disappeared from the web earlier this year when iKlipz went under. I'm in the process of finding them in old backups, uploading and restoring them to their proper places on scanners. This one, an x-ray of the Coens' "Miller's Crossing," was ...
Movies
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There's a war going on in America, people, and the stakes are nothing less than Glenn Beck's internal organs. It's all ...
Television
Beck
Jon Stewart
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Richard Schickel wrote a book review of Robert
Altman: The Oral Biography by Mitchell Zuckoff. Except that,
rather than review the book, he chose to review Robert Altman's capacity for drinking and dope-smoking: It appears that from the ...
Reviewing Altman
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