Columns
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‘Walking Dead’ Season Finale: The Unhappiest Ending of All
Let’s start by stating the obvious
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Lupita Nyong’o, ‘Veronica Mars’ Help Usher in New Era of Girl Power (Guest Blog)
Kristen Bell and an inspired Iran-set vampire movie give this moviegoer a new hope
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The Brilliance of ‘Cosmos’ – Seth MacFarlane Uses His Power for Good
Fox celebrates our greatest minds instead of our smallest
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‘Rob the Mob’ Review: A Bonnie & Clyde Tale That’s Better Than Its Title
Michael Pitt and Nina Arianda star as real-life Robin Hoods – accent on the “hoods” – with a plan so brilliantly stupid it actually worked, until it didn’t
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‘Le Week-End’ Review: Can the City of Lights Save This Marriage?
Jim Broadbent and Lindsay Duncan crackle as a sparring British couple on holiday in this perceptive and witty new dramedy written by Hanif Kureishi
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Dear Hollywood: Fix VFX, It Will Fix the Movie Biz for You (Guest Blog)
VFX artists are middle class workers who are losing their livelihoods to foreign tax subsidies
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‘Mad Men’s’ Matthew Weiner Q&A: Are We Over-Analyzing TV?
Weiner remembers viewers being unimpressed by the carousel speech
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Biblical Scholar on ‘Noah’ Script: ‘Anti-Human, Pro-Environmental Polemic’ (Guest Blog)
Professor of Old Testament Studies Daniel L. Smith-Christopher reads the script for TheWrap — and has more issues with its message than historical accuracy
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‘Believe’ Review: a Good Girl in Need of Darth Vader
NBC drama is promising, but needs villains we can really root against
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‘True Detective’ Complaints: Calm Down, Internet
The show didn’t resolve the mystery you built up around it. Don’t blame the show
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‘Bad Words’ Review: Jason Bateman’s Directorial Debut Exhilarates Until It Grates
The “Arrested Development” star avoids the trap of easy sentimentality in this spelling-bee comedy, but that leaves us with a movie about an unrepentant jerk whose jibes are more revolting than they are funny
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The Best. Baseball Movie. Ever (Guest Blog)
“KANO” is not just the best Asian baseball movie ever, but the best baseball movie ever in the world!
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Dan Bloom -
‘Chicagoland’ Review: CNN’s Docuseries Lacks Emotional Pull of Newark Predecessor
New CNN documentary is good, but the show that inspired it is better














