Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign Scary Movie: Captivity’s Ad Campaign
I joined the protest of a terribly offensive poster for the horror flick Captivity, which resulted in its being taken down. Was that a good thing?
May 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Annabelle Gurwitch
Desire and Its Discontents Desire and Its Discontents
Reviews of Syndromes and a Century, Private Fears in Public Places, Jack Smith and the Destruction of Atlantis and Stephanie Daley.
Apr 19, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Undercover of the Night Undercover of the Night
Reviews of the films Black Book and Zodiac.
Apr 5, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
That’s the Way of the World That’s the Way of the World
Reviews of U-Carmen, Offside and Killer of Sheep, arguably one of the best films of 2007.
Mar 29, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Soft-Core Sexism Soft-Core Sexism
If movies reflect our shared consensus about right and wrong, Black Snake Moan speaks volumes about twenty-first-century America.
Mar 15, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Lakshmi Chaudhry
The Things They Carried The Things They Carried
Reviews of The Host, The Wind That Shakes the Barley and The Namesake.
Mar 12, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Winter Light Winter Light
Stuart Klawans reviews Into Great Silence, Sátántangó and the Museum of Modern Art's retrospective of Abbas Kiarostami's films.
Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Remembering Norma Rae Remembering Norma Rae
Why does Hollywood render unions and the working class invisible?
Feb 26, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Robert Nathan and Jo-Ann Mort
The Spy Who Loved Me The Spy Who Loved Me
Reviews of The Lives of Others and Grbavica: The Land of My Dreams.
Feb 9, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans
Factory Girl Factory Girl
China Blue is a surprisingly fair-minded documentary about teenagers working in a jeans factory in China.
Jan 30, 2007 / Books & the Arts / Stuart Klawans