Film
Arnold Schwarzenegger: The One-Man Brand That America Keeps Buying
“Retirement is for sissies,” read the billboards for the new action film, The Last Stand, opening today. READ MORE >>
Django Unchained Is All Talk With Nothing to Say
Add These to Your NetFlix Queue: Films You Should Have Seen This Year
The New Republic’s film critics on some of the best, under-appreciated films of 2012: READ MORE >>
Stanley Kauffmann on Films: Ages Apart
ADMIRERS OF THE Austrian writer-director Michael Haneke, of whom I hope there are many, may be surprised by his latest film. Such pictures as The Piano Teacher and Funny Games have not flinched from considerable violence when Haneke thought it was needed. His latest work is of different daring, though quite unafraid. READ MORE >>
The Pentagon’s Man in Hollywood: I’m a Eunuch
"Zero Dark Thirty" Has All the Depth of a John Wayne Movie
May I suggest an amendment to the Constitution? It should be as illegal as it is misleading to open a movie with any statement about its being “based on fact.” That very assertion precedes Zero Dark Thirty, the new picture by Kathryn Bigelow, which has already won several critics’ awards and must be in the running for the Best Picture Oscar. READ MORE >>
