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- What is Edward G. Robinson 'Known For'?
- Russia First
- Movie Review: Wonder Bar (1934)
- The Early Drafts of Star Wars, or Whatever Happened to Emperor Ford Xerxes XII?
- Qiyi Jiudian? Wunderbar!
- Movie Review: Broadway Babies (1929)
- Movie Review: Alias Jimmy Valentine (1915)
- Movie Review: Kelly's Heroes (1970)
- Movie Review: Born Reckless (1930)
- Movie Review: Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
- Movie Review: Public Enemy's Wife (1936)
- Movie Review: Before It Ends (2023)
- Movie Review: Black Tuesday (1954)
- Movie Review: The Conspirators (1944)
- Opening Day 2024
- Movie Review: Dune: Part Two (2024)
- Movie Review: The Verdict (1946)
- Oscars: Michael Schulman's Deep Dive Into EnvelopeGate
- Movie Review: The Zone of Interest (2023)
- Movie Review: Five Star Final (1931)
- Movie Review: Asteroid City (2023)
- Movie Review: Escape From Alcatraz (1979)
- Herman Raucher (1928-2023)
- Movie Review: Godzilla Minus One (2023)
- Movie Review: The Killer (2023)
- Frank Howard (1936-2023)
- Movie Review: Zack Snyder's Justice League (2021)
- C'mon, Internet
- Elon's Brand: Ecch
- Movie Review: 100 Years of Warner Bros. (2023)
- The Reason Behind TV's 'Rural Purge' in 1970
- Movie Review: Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania (2023)
- Amazon Bug Report: An Update
- Movie Review: Up the River (1930)
- Chinatown IV
- Sorry, Tainan
- A War Memorial For a War That's Not a Memory
- Movie Review: Come Fill the Cup (1951)
- Movie Review: Amsterdam (2022)
- All the Diminutives
- Movie Review: The Racket (1928)
- Michael Lerner (1941-2023)
- Movie Review: Blonde Crazy (1931)
- When?
- Movie Review: Outside the Law (1930)
- Movie Review: The Widow from Chicago (1930)
- Movie Review: All My Sons (1948)
- Movie Review: Triangle of Sadness (2022)
- Movie Review: The Oklahoma Kid (1939)
- Movie Review: Aftersun (2022)
- Movie Review: Babylon (2022)
- The Stars (Trek/Wars) Align
- Movie Review: Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery (2022)
- Movie Review: The Cheat (1915)
- Movie Review: Empire of Light (2022)
- Movie Review: Brother Orchid (1940)
- M*A*S*H Note: Allen Jenkins and Pat O'Brien, Together Again
- Movie Review: Shadows Over Shanghai (1938)
- Movie Review: Hot Saturday (1932)
- Movie Review: The Wagons Roll at Night (1941)
- Movie Review: The Criminal Code (1930)
- Movie Review: Barbary Coast (1935)
- Movie Review: Illegal (1955)
- Now We Are Six: Tony Oliva and Jim Kaat Inducted Into Baseball Hall of Fame
- Movie Review: The Bitter Tea of General Yen (1932)
- #TheSnyderCult
- Movie Review: Top Gun: Maverick (2022)
- M's Beat O's in Fun Fashion, and How OBP Can Be Lower than BA
- Movie Review: You Can't Get Away With Murder (1939)
- Movie Review: San Quentin (1937)
- The Book on The Book of Boba Fett
- Sam McDaniel Breaks the Fourth Wall
- Movie Review: The Angels Wash Their Faces (1939)
- A Steve McQueen Vibe
- The World As We Know It Will End Because of Fossil-Fuel Interests, Joe Manchin and the Republican Party
- When Warners Sank
- Movie Review: Dune (2021)
- Movie Review: Spencer (2021)
- Movie Review: Soylent Green (1973)
- Sidney Poitier (1927-2022)
- Movie Review: A Slight Case of Murder (1938)
- Movie Review: Kid Galahad (1937)
- Movie Review: White Heat (1949)
- The Stupid Giant
- Movie Review: The Little Giant (1933)
- First National
- Movie Review: The Mind Reader (1933)
- The Pictographs of Hood Canal
- Harry Rosenfeld (1929-2021)
- Young Man With a Horn, Old Man With a Harm
- More on 'Mission to Moscow'
- Movie Review: Ragtime (1981)
- Movie Review: Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
- Bialystock + Bloom = Blumenstock?
- Donald Rumsfeld (1932-2021)
- Seattle Is Burning
- Movie Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)
- 'Sure, but I wouldn't want Cagney under the same roof as one'
- Movie Review: Employees' Entrance (1933)
- Movie Review: Ceiling Zero (1936)
- Movie Review: The Last Gangster (1937)
- Movie Review: One, Two, Three (1961)
- Movie Review: Midway (1976)
- Movie Review: The Gallant Hours (1960)
- Movie Review: Bullets or Ballots (1936)
- Never Be Anyone Else But You
- Frances Farmer by Howard Hawks
- Movie Review: The Public Enemy (1931)
- Movie Review: Mister Roberts (1955)
- 'The Public Enemy,' Starring Everyone
- The Big 3: Dracula, Frankenstein, the Mummy
- Movie Review: Baby Face (1933)
- 'Democracy Has a Fundamental Assumption'
- Movie Review: The Time of Your Life (1948)
- More on Ed Woods and Louella Parsons
- Movie Review: Here Comes the Navy (1934)
- Movie Review: Mothers Cry (1930)
- What Trump Said About the Military
- ‘Young Film Comer to Have Lead Role in Public Enemy’
- Movie Review: 13 Rue Madeleine (1947)
- Woody
- Movie Review: He Was Her Man (1934)
- Olivia de Havilland (1916-2020)
- ‘Let’s Stop This Nonsense'
- Movie Review: Three on a Match (1932)
- Movie Review: The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
- Movie Review: Dead End (1937)
- Movie Review: The Letter (1940)
- Lancelot Links
- Movie Review: They Drive By Night (1940)
- Movie Review: The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938)
- The Monster in the Middle: A Few Thoughts on Unfriending Facebook
- No Way / American Way
- Famous Hollywood Conservatives Say There's No Blacklist Against Hollywood Conservatives
- On Being a Movie Star, See?
- Movie Review: Captains of the Clouds (1942)
- Prepare! For The Public Enemy!
- Movie Review: Extraction (2020)
- Now Do Climate Change
- Robert Capa by Walter Bernstein
- Movie Review: Spielberg (2017)
- John Prine (1946-2020)
- Movie Review: The West Point Story (1950)
- ‘Hank’ Gowdy, Super-Hero, Cont.
- Success at Any Price
- Why the GOP is Awful and Keeps Winning
- Movie Review: 63 Up (2019)
- Movie Review: A Hidden Life (2019)
- Joe's Top 100: 61-70
- Movie Review: Ip Man 4 (2019)
- Box Office: ‘Rise of Skywalker’ Does Great for Anything But a Star Wars Movie
- Movie Review: Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker (2019)
- Box Office: ‘Skywalker’ Doesn't Exactly Rise
- Star Wars: The Much-Discovered Country
- Movie Review: Blood on the Sun (1945)
- The Most Unbreakable Record in Baseball History
- Movie Review: Parasite (2019)
- Movie Review: The Masked Marvel (1943)
- Quote of the Day
- Movie Review: Milius (2013)
- Billy Jack, Dirty Harry and the Lafayette Escadrille
- ‘Only in America’
- Baseball Team WAR: The Quiz
- Movie Review: Other Men's Women (1931)
- Movie Review: Fifty Million Frenchmen (1931)
- Movie Review: The Doorway to Hell (1930)
- Movie Review: Godzilla: King of the Monsters (2019)
- Movie Review: Sinners' Holiday (1930)
- Movie Review: Hatchet Man (1932)
- Movie Review: The Fighting 69th (1940)
- Best. Photo. Ever.
- Jim
- Movie Review: Hard to Handle (1933)
- Movie Review: Rocketman (2019)
- Movie Review: Smart Money (1931)
- Things I Learned On Vacation in Belgium and France
- Movie Review: The Crowd Roars (1932)
- Movie Review: Sword of Trust (2019)
- Movie Review: The Whole Town's Talking (1935)
- Movie Review: Shanghai (1935)
- Movie Review: Taxi (1932)
- After 12 Days, ‘Avengers: Endgame’ is Second All-Time in Global Box Office
- Movie Review: Oil for the Lamps of China (1935)
- Game Over, Man: ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Shatters Box Office Record with $350 Million Opening Weekend
- ‘Avengers: Endgame’ Grosses $156 Million In One Day—With a Snap of Its Fingers
- Movie Review: The Irish In Us (1935)
- Movie Review: Robin Hood of El Dorado (1936)
- Tweet of the Day
- Movie Review: Great Guy (1936)
- What's Your Establishing 1938 Newspaper Headline? 1938 Has Its Answer
- Camera Day: Leo Cardenas, 1969
- Box Office: China's ‘Wandering Earth’ Soars
- Movie Review: Cold War (2018)
- Movie Review: Flash Gordon (1980)
- Movie Review: VICE (2018)
- Box Office: ‘Aquaman’ Swims in International Waters
- Movie Review: Flash Gordon (1936)
- Movie Review: The Spider's Web (1938)
- FilmStruck, We Hardly Knew Ye
- Movie Review: The St. Louis Kid (1934)
- Movie Review: Hell's Kitchen (1939)
- ‘No Time to Think About It’: FilmStruck Struck by AT&T
- Movie Review: The Mayor of Hell (1933)
- What's Missing from ‘Fear’
- Movie Review: Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom (2018)
- Fun with Subtitles: The Mayor of Hell (1933), Cont.
- Movie Review: Lady Killer (1933)
- Fun with Subtitles: The Mayor of Hell (1933)
- Movie Review: Jimmy the Gent (1934)
- George Papadopoulos in Crime School
- Shallow Deep Background
- His Own Asshole
- Movie Review: Picture Snatcher (1933)
- 90%
- Testify
- Movie Review: Solo: A Star Wars Story (2018)
- Box Office ‘Incredibles 2’ Shatters Animated Mark
- Box Office for ‘Solo’: A Great Disturbance in the Force
- Chinese Box Office, Addendum
- Box Office: Moviegoers Assemble for ‘Avengers’
- Movie Review: Operation Red Sea (2018)
- Movie Review: Riphagen (2016)
- ‘Black Panther’ Passes $500 Million Domestic
- Or The Children's Crusade
- Movie Review: Darkest Hour (2017)
- Movie Review: Mark Felt (2017)
- Movie Review: Star Wars: The Last Jedi (2017)
- 'Star Wars' Threepeats as No Film Franchise Has
- Box Office: A 'Star Wars' First; 'Last Jedi' Stumbles
- Box Office: Nothing But 'Star Wars'
- Monumental Shift
- Movie Review: Dunkirk (2017)
- No Nip for Tuck
- Movie Review: Ming Yue Ji Shi You (2017)
- Movie Review: Wonder Woman (2017)
- Movie Review: The Fabulous Allan Carr (2017)
- Desert Dreams: Did Tatooine Begin as a Film Project on the Set of 'Mackenna's Gold'?
- Movie Review: Frantz (2016)
- Movie Review: Rules Don't Apply (2016)
- My Father's Original ‘Star Wars’ Review from 1977 (with special guest star Muhammad Ali!)
- Movie Review: Allied (2016)
- Movie Review: Hacksaw Ridge (2016)
- Movie Review: Logan (2017)
- Movie Review: Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel (2011)
- The Oscars: Everyone's Getting It Wrong About Who Got It Wrong
- #ShePersisted
- Movie Review: Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (2016)
- The Year in Box Office 2016: Cartoons, Superheroes, Crashed Chariots, and Nothing But Star Wars
- Podcast: The Generation Gap: Three Generations of Film Critics Tackle Three Generations of Film, Part I
- Genocidal Old Party
- Movie Review: Snowden (2016)
- Movie Review: Suicide Squad (2016)
- That Open Letter to Warner Bros. CEO Kevin Tsujihara
- Lancelot Links
- Quote of the Day
- Movie Review: Son of Saul (2015)
- The Story of ‘The Story of Louis Pasteur’
- Movie Review: The General (1926)
- Movie Review: The Innocents (2016)
- Movie Review: Cafe Society (2016)
- Trailer: Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk
- Batman, Superman Robbed of Millions by Zack Snyder, Warner Bros.
- How to Get Ahead: Shmethics
- Why Did Martians Land in Grovers Mill, NJ?
- Movie Review: Blockade (1938)
- Movie Review: Mission to Moscow (1943)
- 'The Force Awakens' Passes 'Avatar" to Become Biggest Box Office Hit in U.S. History (Unadjusted)
- Movie Review: Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015)
- Lancelot Links
- Could 'Star Wars VII' Be the First $1 Billion Domestic Movie?
- 'The Force Awakens' Shatters Box Office Records
- Movie Review: In the Heart of the Sea (2015)
- Movie Review: Sicario (2015)
- The First Mention of the ‘Greenhouse Effect’ in The New York Times was on Sept. 25, 1955
- Every Step in the 'Star Wars' Saga Has Ruined the First Ones
- Movie Review: Bridge of Spies (2015)
- Movie Review: 7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
- Movie Review: American Ultra (2015)
- Movie Review: Rocky IV (1985)
- Saddest Headline Ever
- Back in the Times: 'American Ultra' Review
- Movie Review: '71 (2014)
- Movie Review: The Killing Fields (1984)
- #JonVoyage
- Let Us Now Praise a Funny Man
- Movie Review: Clouds of Sils Maria (2014)
- 'Less Pro-Left than Anti-Bullshit'
- The Heat
- Is 3.5 Years of Mike Trout > 12 Years of Yadier Molina?
- Movie Review: Jurassic World (2015)
- Movie Review: The Overnight (2015)
- Lancelot Links
- Quote of the Day
- Was 'Zero Dark Thirty' CIA Propaganda?
- Your Go-To Stat In Case Any Asshole Complains About How Much Teachers Make
- Quotes of the Day
- John Oliver Lets Edward Snowden Know He Ruined His Life for Nothing
- Lancelot Links
- Movie Review: Listen Up Philip (2014)
- Movie Review: Of Miracles and Men (2015)
- Quote of the Day
- The 2015 Césars: Kristen Stewart and the Dueling Saint Laurents
- Movie Review: Force Majeure (2014)
- Movie Review: The Imitation Game (2014)
- The Best Movies of their Lives?
- It's a Wonderful Quote - I
- The Genius Moment of 'Star Wars'
- ‘The Nostalgia is Strong With This One’: 10 Thoughts on the Teaser for ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’
- Movie Review: Citizenfour (2014)
- Lancelot Links
- Weekend Box Office Numbers Recall Goebbels Quote
- The Pepsi Challenge in Syria
- Pointless: Jon Stewart Weighs In on #Pointergate
- Lancelot Links
- Movie Review: Fury (2014)
- Movie Review: Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
- Talking Back at the Screen: The Equalizer
- Other Disasters Nixon Caused: 'Rambo: First Blood Part II'
- Movie Review: Snowpiercer (2014)
- Movie Review: Ida (2014)
- Eurotrip 2014: Terezin
- Quote of the Day
- Lancelot Links
- Movie Review: X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014)
- Quote of the Day
- Miss Me Yet? Part V
- Art as Incomplete Communication
- Respectfully, Justice Scalia, It's the Troposphere
- Miss Me Yet? Part IV
- Ward Bond: Friend of McCarthy, Traitor to Orson Welles
- Ward Bond: Oaf, Loudmouth, Anti-Semite
- Quote of the Day
- Movie Review: The Unknown Known (2014)
- Quote of the Day
- 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier' Sets April Box Office Record
- From the 'Unmade Movies' File: Ronald Reagan, Commie
- Captain America's Message to Fox News
- Movie Review: 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
- Movie Review: 300 (2007)
- Movie Review: Mr. Peabody & Sherman (2014)
- 'Henny Penny, When the Sky Fell' is Tamarian for ... ?
- Movie Review: No End in Sight (2007)
- Movie Review: The Monuments Men (2014)
- Movie Review: Lone Survivor (2013)
- Movie Review: Red 2 (2013)
- Quote of the Day
- Quote of the Day
- Chuck Armstrong Retires, Lauded for Never Winning Pennant
- Seven Questions Jon Stewart Should Have Asked Jennifer Lawrence Last Week on 'The Daily Show'
- 'Rush' Addendum
- Movie Review: Rush (2013)
- Quotes of the Day on the Government Shutdown
- The Lessons of 'Star Wars,' Doofus Edition
- Something Scarier than Sharks
- Where Andrew Sullivan is Wrong on Syria, Obama
- Photo of the Day
- Movie Review: Elysium (2013)
- Movie Review: The Gatekeepers (2012)
- Quote of the Day
- IMDb's Top 10 Movies of the 1980s
- Movie Review: World War Z (2013)
- SLIDESHOW: Got it Bad for Little Miss Lois Lane
- Movie Review: The Trials of Muhammad Ali (2013)
- Movie Review: The Last Sentence (2012)
- Movie Review: Dirty Wars (2013)
- Milestone: 400 Parts Per Million
- Winter Box Office: Hasta la Vista, Arnie
- Quote of the Day
- Movie Review: On the Road (2012)
- The Answer Man Answers Your Movie Questions
- Henny Penny, When the Sky Fell: 'No End in Sight' and the 10th Anniversary of the Iraq Invasion
- Email to Jake: March 9, 2003
- Email to Elin: March 2003
- Quote of the Day
- Quote of the Day
- Invasion USA: Two Lois Lanes, No Superman
- Star Wars VII by Michael Haneke
- My Top 10 Movie Lines of 2012
- Quote of the Day
- Movie Review: The Last Stand (2013)
- The Original Gangster Squad
- Movie Review: Barbara (2012)
- Movie Review: Chasing Ice (2012)
- Quote of the Day
- The New Hollywood 10: How Stars on the Left are Punished; How Stars on the Right Punish Us
- The Dangers of PBS Programming
- Movie Review: The Master (2012)
- Miggy
- My Name is Saul Berenson; You Attacked My Country; Prepare to Die
- The Third Quote from Jill Lepore's ‘The Lie Factory: How politics became a business’
- Movie Review: End of Watch (2012)
- Quote of the Day
- Counter-Programming: Movies to Watch During the GOP Convention
- Being Fair to Hitler
- Gore Vidal Quote of the Day XIII
- Gore Vidal Quote of the Day X
- Ranking Every Batman Movie from the 1940s Serials to 'The Dark Knight'
- Howard Lincoln and Chuck Armstrong, Accountable to No One (Or How the Seattle Mariners Became Soylent Green)
- A Long Time Ago, In a Comic Book Far, Far Out...
- The Five Worst Movies of 2011
- Movie Review: The Help (2011)
- Movie Review: War Horse (2011)
- Movie Review: Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (2011)
- Movie Review: Katyn (2007)
- Movie Review: G-Men (1935)
- Lancelot Links
- Movie Review: Winter in Wartime (2008)
- Darth Vader Speaks? Noooooooo!
- Movie Review: Sarah's Key (2011)
- Movie Review: X Men: The Last Stand (2006)
- Memorial Day After Tomorrow
- Movie Review: X2 (2003)
- Movie Review: X-Men (2000)
- Osama + Arnold
- Movie Review: “La Rafle” (2010)
- Quote of the Day
- Charters and Caldicott and the “Night Train to Munich” (1940)
- Née: “An Empire of Their Own”
- An Empire of His Own: How Neal Gabler Invented a Powerful Critical Elite
- Review: “Vertigo” (1958)
- Lancelot Links
- FOX News: Accusing Others of Its Own Crimes
- Review: “Notorious” (1946)
- Jon Stewart's Funny, But...
- Review: John Rabe (2009)
- Travels: Rehoboth Beach, Del.: Tea Shirts
- Lancelot Links
- Lancelot Links
- John Paul Stevens Quote: Rasul, Hamdan, and Bouemediene
- Review: “Scott Pilgrim vs. the World” (2010)
- Movie Review: Breaking Away (1979)
- Review: “Nanjing! Nanjing!” or “The City of Life and Death” (2010)
- Hollywood B.O.: The B-Team
- My Jackie Chan (成龍) Retrospective
- Movie Review: The Tillman Story (2010)
- Review: “Restrepo” (2010)
- Review: “Green Zone” (2010)
- Why Harry Can't Read Rights
- What Liberal Hollywood?
- Miss Me Yet? - II
- Review: “Fantastic Mr. Fox” (2009)
- Review: “New Moon” (2009)
- Review: “Avatar” (2009)
- Review: “Twilight” (2008)
- Breaking Away Lesson of the Day
- Fun with Definite Articles
- Review: “Inglourious Basterds” (2009)
- Review: “In the Loop” (2009)
- “Star Trek: Confusion”
- Wearing Wool Caps in 100 Degree Weather
- Review: The Hurt Locker (2009)
- Humans from Earth
- Review: “Angels & Demons” (2009)
- “Star Trek”/“Star Wars” Parallels
- My Most-Quoted Movie Lines (No. 4)
- Edward Hopper's Quiet
- Escape from Sea-Tac
- Torture to Watch
- All Hail King Albert!
- TDS: RIP? — Addendum
- Two Minute Review: W. (2008)
- “F**k it. We're going in.”
- Good-Bye To All That: Something to be said for blitzkrieg
- Reframing the War on Terror with Milan Kundera
- It's Sunday morning and I love David Mamet, Randy Newman, Frank Rich and especially Elizabeth Edwards
- And the winner is...