Michael Atkinson
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Always Look on the Bright Side of Genocide
When did the Holocaust become morally ambiguous? more
vol. 33, iss. 03 movies, war
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A Massacre in 3/4 Time
Waltz with Bashir is hallucinatory, relentless, and amazing. more
vol. 33, iss. 02 middle east, movies
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Moore Than You or Me
Slacker Uprising offers nothing new, but it will be worth something if it affects November's election more
vol. 32, iss. 11 movies
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Errol Morris’ Myopia
Filmmaker Errol Morris has grown famous and revered as the pioneer of what could be called interrogatory cinema --… more
vol. 32, iss. 06
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Iraq: Mismanagement or Mass Murder?
No End in Sight explores how we got into Iraq and what screw-ups have made the situation spiral out of control more
vol. 31, iss. 08 middle east, movies
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Iraq on the Big Screen
Who should define what a war is "about"? By any ethical standard, that right should fall to the besieged--those… more
vol. 30, iss. 06 art, movies, war
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When We Were Psychos
In 1969, news of the My Lai massacre hit the American press and gave the already-queasy stateside citizenry a… more
vol. 29, iss. 22 war and peace
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Look Out, It’s Real!
"Look out, Haskell, it's real!," shouts a crew member, in the watershed moment from Haskell Wexler's 1969 seminal is-it-real-or-is-it-cinema,… more
vol. 29, iss. 14
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Helping Themselves
There may not be a more thoroughly ravaged national economy on the planet than Argentina’s—it’s a poster child for… more
vol. 29, iss. 01 economy, international, movies, south america
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Swan Song of the Century
Now, Johnny Ramone is dead. Like a chilling, not-so-funny answer to Spinal Tap—the fictional rock band whose drummers kept… more
vol. 28, iss. 25
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Stranger Than Fiction
Seems simple now: Observe as a cabal of Christian billionaires cadges an election and takes over the country, waging… more
vol. 28, iss. 23
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Spin’s the Thing
How much credit, exactly, does Jonathan Demme’s remake of John Frankenheimer’s 1962 paranoid-nation classic The Manchurian Candidate get for… more
vol. 28, iss. 21
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When Yes Means No
The worst of times, the best of times: Sure, our nation is in the hands of a federal cabal… more
vol. 28, iss. 18
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Counter Cultural Programming
The November firefight approaches and here we are, awash in a media flashflood of press secretary prevarication, corporate indictment… more
vol. 28, iss. 14 social justice
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