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The Fighting IrishOn Friday, I was shocked like the rest of America to learn that Richard Nixon had been... |
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Black Swan: Hysterical, But Not Necessarily FunnyWhat’s the most demanding sport? A 1975 Journal of Sports Medicine study by James... |
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The King’s S-S-SpeechIn outline, The King’s Speech sounds like a Wayans Brothers spoof of a Weinstein... |
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J. K. Rowling: Britain’s Most Important Cultural ConservativeKids these days have short attention spans. Or so I’ve often been informed. For... |
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127 Hours of Hollywood HokumThe exuberant 127 Hours, Director Danny Boyle’s first movie since winning the Best... |
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Inside Job Documentary PassesTypical documentaries, such as Waiting for “Superman” and Freakonomics, are made by... |
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FreakonomicsThe new documentary Freakonomics harkens back to the good old days of 2005. Remember... |
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Ben Affleck’s The Town is a Perfectly Executed HeistThe Town, set amidst the fading (but increasingly fashionable) Irish-American... |
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The Great Machete Meta-Joke FailAfter the Euro-ennui of The American last week, Robert Rodriguez’s Machete sounded... |
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George Clooney Hits Rock Bottom (We Hope)Why has The American, in which superstar George Clooney plays an international hitman... |
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Eat, Pray, Love: A New Low for Chick FlicksFour decades into the feminist era, the number one movie at the box office is Sylvester... |
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Will Ferrell’s The Other Guys: Surprisingly FunnyDespite both a forgettable title and the fifteen years in which Will Ferrell and... |
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Get Low: Stellar Cast, Shoddy ScreenplayGet Low, a dramedy starring venerable elders Robert Duvall, Bill Murray, and Cissy... |
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The Kids Are… Totally OverratedThe limited-release comedy The Kids Are All Right has driven critics into paroxysms of... |