Columns
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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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‘Chicagoland’ Review: CNN’s Docuseries Lacks Emotional Pull of Newark Predecessor
New CNN documentary is good, but the show that inspired it is better
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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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‘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
