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Joshua Rothkopf
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Undiscovered Country
The typical complaint goes something like this: Why open a huge, gleaming multiplex if three of those screens more »
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9/11 at the Movies
Since Spike Lee’s 25th Hour, I have been expressing a mixture of hope and doubt concerning the more »
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Smash and Grab
Ang Lee’s The Hulk is the kind of rambling, overstuffed psychodrama that only a true artist could more »
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Kiss the Girls, Make Them Cry
You don’t have to be an embedded journalist to know we’re missing much of the good more »
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Into the Woods
When people complain about the movies being too fake or showy or otherwise lacking in depth, I have more »
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Headphone Mind
Morvern Callar gets at you through your eardrums. Its gifted young director, Lynne Ramsay, has described her second more »
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Truth and Consequences
Spike Lee’s latest—his 20th feature including TV work—is at long last the raging masterpiece many more »
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The Subject Was Orchids
Let a great adenoidal whine spread out across the land: A new comic hero for the neurotic has more »
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As the World Yearns
When a movie gets it all impeccably, heartbreakingly right, as does Todd Haynes’ stunning Far from Heaven, some more »
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The Big Picture
So it looks like the movies made it. Made it through the “death of irony” we heard so more »
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