Columns
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Is Oprah Winfrey Exploiting Lindsay Lohan?
Lohan’s approach to sobriety flies in the face of AA traditions, but here’s hoping it works
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‘Mr. Peabody and Sherman’ Review: Amusing Cartoon Might Delight Adults More Than Kids
If only this inconsistent comedy-adventure, based on the classic TV show, were as singularly clever and capable as its canine hero
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‘The Red Road’ Review: Good Actors Steered Astray
Sundance drama starts strong, but too much happens too soon
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‘Son of God’ Review: Bless Me, Surfer Jesus
Not unlike “Game of Thrones,” this big-screen condensation of History’s “The Bible” miniseries plays far more interestingly when it focuses on political machinations rather than on the supernatural
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Did ‘Walking Dead’ Just Change Everything?
Why a new character is kind of a big deal
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‘True Detective’: HBO’s Hit Series Just Gets Better and Better (Guest Blog)
A monster is still out there
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‘Barefoot’ Review: This Love Isn’t Very Crazy, But It’s Plenty Stupid
When Scott Speedman and Evan Rachel Wood find love in a mental hospital, this dreadful dramedy takes “manic pixie dream girl” to new levels of dumb
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George Clooney Offers an Under-Told Story of World War II in ‘Monuments Men’
“Next time we go to any major museum in Europe or America today, we will remember that some of the major works may have been stolen during World War II”
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‘House of Cards’ Spoilers: When Are We Allowed to Talk About That Huge Thing That Happened?
A spoiler-free look at when a spoiler isn’t a spoiler anymore
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‘Endless Love’ Review: Teen Romance Isn’t Schmaltzy, But It’s Not Special, Either
Alex Pettyfer is poor, Gabriella Wilde is rich, and they’re both pretty in this slick but ardent love story
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Martin Scorsese Plans to Shoot Japanese Novel ‘Silence’ in Taiwan (Guest Blog)
The director got the idea after personally conferring with Ang Lee
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Comparing ‘Philomena,’ ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ and ‘Nebraska’ … and the Winner is ‘Philomena!’ (Guest Blog)
“As to ‘Wolf of Wall Street,’ this film is devoid of values. It is cheap sexual exploitation”
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Olympics: Is Julia Lipnitskaia’s Routine ‘Schindler’s List: On Ice’? Good
It’s not hard to find parallels in a country that systematically oppresses gays
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Why You Should Watch ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’
It has everything everyone wants in a show… so get on this














