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The American Film Institute announced its 2011 awards for the ten best films and TV shows on Sunday. This year, as I have been a few times before, I was on the jury (along with other critics, including Tim Goodman, Matt Roush and Ken Tucker, and numerous TV-biz professionals). If you’ve read my own ten-best list, you know how I voted, …
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Last night, HBO aired the pilot of Luck, the new David Milch drama which debuts for realsies late in January. I may post some first impressions later, but not for now because: (1) I first need to handle the season finale of Boardwalk Empire, which HBO did not screen in advance and (2) HBO is sending the whole Luck season, so I’m not sure …
Revelers stay home as the box office slumps to its worst weekend in three years
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It was, literally, a jet-set fairy tale. She was a two-term Democratic Congresswoman from Tucson; he was an accomplished astronaut in Houston. …
How do you know a colleague has been sleeping with your wife? In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, George Smiley (Gary Oldman) drops his eyes to the floor of his living room and lets them travel under a table, where the culprit’s feet …
A critic comes clean about his Declaration of Principles… he means Prejudices… he means Pleasures. Which must explain why Fast Five is on the list.
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Earlier this week, I posted my Top 10 TV series of 2011 list, with Louis CK‘s remarkable first-person show Louie at #1. You’ll have to wait until next year for the next season, but in the meantime, there’s a Louis CK special this …
Earlier this week, TIME released its Best of 2011 lists, which included round-ups of our favorite songs and albums of the past year. Because we’re so nice — and because we never grew out of our adolescent mixtape phase — …
A few weeks ago I was walking along a New York subway platform when I noticed the movie poster for Garry Marshall’s New Year’s Eve. It’s the follow-up (same director, same writer, same producers) to 2010 Valentine’s Day. Both are …
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Spoilers for last night’s Parks and Recreation below:
Last night after rewatching “Citizen Knope” (having gotten a screener earlier in the week), I tweeted half-jokingly that Parks and Recreation had become “the Friday Night …
This year, The Beastie Boys, Guns N’ Roses, The Red Hot Chili Peppers, Donovan, The Small Faces and Laura Nyro join a long list of rock legends
The singer-director opens her heart to that material girl of the ’30s, Wallis Simpson, in a mix-tape of history and fantasy that not many fans will cherish
Corrections appended: Dec. 9, 2011
The original version of this story dealt, in part, with Amazon’s Price Check mobile app, and claimed that the app allowed discounts on books, which it does not. References to the app have …
