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- Apr 7 2013The Enthusiast: On Roger Ebert0
- Jul 23 2012BatChrist: Born (and Re-Born) in Hell0
- Jul 22 2012The Audacity of Repetition, Reinforcement, and Clarity0
- Jul 20 2012Needed Scars for a Better Dark Knight0
- Dec 27 2011Cronenberg's Naked Lunch0
- May 16 2011Gross Error1
- Nov 29 2010Twitter Review: Stay0
- Oct 6 2010Twitter Review: The Square1
- Oct 1 2010Twitter Review: Let Me in0
- Sep 17 2010Swan Song1
- Sep 16 2010Catching Up with the Coens9
- Aug 19 2010Looking Forward0
- Aug 5 2010All Dressed Up and No Place to Go2
- Aug 4 2010Twitter Review: F for Fake0
- Jul 21 2010Attaboy, Jim0
- Jul 18 2010Christopher Nolan's Dead Women6
- Jul 18 2010Incepted2
- Jul 17 2010Acts of Hashem1
- Jul 13 2010Twitter Review: The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo0
- Jul 13 2010Twitter Review: It Might Get Loud0
- Jul 9 2010On Re-Creations0
- Jul 8 2010Twitter Review: Watchmen0
- Jul 8 2010Reclamation Project0
- Jul 7 2010Twitter Review: [Rec]0
- Jun 24 2010Twitter Review: Treme Season 10
- Jun 21 2010Twitter Review: Adoration0
- Jun 16 2010Follow the Character1
- Jun 13 2010Twitter Review: Charlie Wilson's War0
- Jun 10 2010Twitter Review: Justified Season 10
- Jun 8 2010Twitter Review: The Messenger0
- Jun 3 2010Rigid Expectations0
- May 28 2010Antichrist: A Review in Four Tweets0
- May 24 2010Lost: The Missing Ending2
- May 22 2010Twitter Review: Timecrimes0
- May 22 2010Flash Back, Flash Forward0
- May 12 2010Twitter Review: Lost, "Across the Sea"0
- May 12 2010Twitter Review: (500) Days of Summer0
- May 12 2010Twitter Review: An Education0
- Apr 27 2010Twitter Review: Fantastic Mr. Fox0
- Apr 22 2010Twitter Review: Dead Snow0
- Apr 22 2010Twitter Review: Sugar0
- Apr 22 2010Twitter Review: Where the Wild Things Are0
- Apr 15 2010Twitter Review: Masters of Horror: Imprint0
- Apr 7 2010Twitter Review: The House of the Devil0
- Apr 3 2010Twitter Review: Up in the Air0
- Apr 3 2010Twitter Review: The Informant!0
- Mar 16 2010Twitter Review: The Invention of Lying0
- Mar 11 2010Twitter Review: Coraline0
- Mar 3 2010Majority Rules: How Oscar Got It Right4
- Feb 25 2010A Singular Double Life0
- Feb 20 2010Twitter Review: Battlestar Galactica (2003-9)0
- Feb 13 2010The Face of Arizona Wine1
- Feb 6 2010Twitter Review: The Hurt Locker0
- Jan 19 2010Twitter Review: Harvard Beats Yale 29-290
- Jan 15 2010Twitter Review: Moon0
- Jan 15 2010Ebert's Game: Still Hidden6
- Jan 11 2010Twitter Review: Anvil! The Story of Anvil0
- Jan 9 2010Tweet!0
- Jan 9 2010Twitter Review: Paranormal Activity0
- Jan 4 2010Tweet!0
- Jan 4 2010Twitter Review: Inglourious Basterds0
- Dec 31 2009100 Favorite Movies, 2000-20092
- Dec 31 2009Five Favorite Filmmakers, 2000-20092
- Dec 31 2009Growing Old with Grace: A 2009 Album0
- Dec 29 2009Pick Best Picture0
- Dec 28 2009Tweet!0
- Dec 28 2009Tweet!0
- Dec 24 2009Tweet!0
- Dec 23 2009What Is Mainstream?0
- Dec 17 2009Box Office Power Rankings: November 13-December 13, 20090
- Dec 10 2009Twitter Review: Adventureland0
- Dec 5 2009Twitter Review: Thirst0
- Dec 2 2009That's More Like It0
- Nov 20 2009Tweet!0
- Nov 12 2009Twitter Review: Grace0
- Nov 12 2009Box Office Power Rankings: October 30-November 8, 20090
- Nov 6 2009Tweet!0
- Nov 6 2009Economical Storytelling in Movies: A Case Study2
- Nov 3 2009Tweet!0
- Oct 31 2009Twitter Review: Drag Me to Hell0
- Oct 30 2009Box Office Power Rankings: October 16-25, 20090
- Oct 29 2009Scares on a Frightfully Small Budget0
- Oct 28 2009Tweet!0
- Oct 27 2009Monster Mash1
- Oct 19 2009Twitter Review: Cronos0
- Oct 16 2009Box Office Power Rankings: August 28-October 11, 20090
- Oct 16 2009Best Left Unsolved0
- Oct 14 2009Twitter Review: Duplicity0
- Oct 11 2009Twitter Review: Halloween (2007)0
- Oct 7 2009Tweet!0
- Oct 2 2009Agonizing Anticipation0
- Sep 25 2009Tweet!0
- Sep 24 2009Twitter Review: Tell No One0
- Sep 23 2009Twitter Review: The Flight of the Conchords Season 20
- Sep 16 2009Twitter Review: Battlestar Galactica Season 30
- Sep 16 2009Say Hello to My Little Stranger0
- Aug 28 2009Best of the Blockbusters2
- Aug 28 2009Box Office Power Rankings: August 7-23, 20090
- Aug 12 2009Twitter Review: Repulsion0
- Aug 7 2009Box Office Power Rankings: July 10-August 2, 20090
- Jul 18 2009A Static Film About Transience (and Self-Involvement, and Blowjobs)3
- Jul 15 2009Canon Fodder2
- Jul 14 2009Potter Mouth, Part II0
- Jul 14 2009Potter Mouth0
- Jul 11 2009Twitter Review: A Tale of Two Sisters0
- Jul 10 2009The Slow Dawn of Surprise0
- Jul 9 2009Box Office Power Rankings: May 29-July 5, 20090
- Jun 25 2009Does Oscar Have a Growing Problem?3
- Jun 15 2009Twitter Review: The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford0
- Jun 15 2009Twitter Review: Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan0
- Jun 15 2009Twitter Review: Star Trek: The Motion Picture0
- Jun 7 2009Twitter Review: Up0
- Jun 1 2009Twitter Review: Star Trek (2009)0
- May 29 2009Twitter Review: JCVD0
- May 28 2009Box Office Power Rankings: May 1-25, 20090
- May 19 2009Twitter Review: The Wrestler0
- May 14 2009Twitter Review: Lost Season 5 Finale0
- May 11 2009A Life More Ordinary0
- May 5 2009Box Office Power Rankings: April 17-26, 20091
- Apr 16 2009Box Office Power Rankings: April 3-12, 20090
- Apr 15 2009The Form Is the Function1
- Apr 15 2009Twitter Review: Slumdog Millionaire0
- Apr 6 2009Counting Down the Zeroes0
- Apr 3 2009Box Office Power Rankings: March 20-29, 20090
- Apr 2 2009Favorite Film Characters7
- Mar 30 2009Twitter Review: Milk0
- Mar 29 2009Twitter Review: Quantum of Solace0
- Mar 27 2009Apple of My I3
- Mar 20 2009Box Office Power Rankings: March 6-15, 20090
- Mar 17 2009Twitter Review: Let the Right One in0
- Mar 14 2009Twitter Review: Rachel Getting Married0
- Mar 14 2009Twitter Review: Vicky Cristina Barcelona0
- Mar 13 2009Feeling Blu, Ray?1
- Mar 5 2009Box Office Power Rankings: February 20-March 1, 20092
- Mar 3 2009Watchmen's Opening Weekend0
- Mar 2 2009Twitter Review: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly0
- Mar 1 2009Twitter Review: Frozen River0
- Feb 27 2009A New Beginning for Opening Shots?0
- Feb 26 2009A Quest for Joy0
- Feb 18 2009Box Office Power Rankings: February 6-16, 20090
- Feb 17 2009Twitter Review: Battlestar Galactica Season 10
- Feb 17 2009Twitter Review: Encounters at the End of the World0
- Feb 16 2009Twitter Review: Zodiac0
- Feb 11 2009Devouring the Oscars: Best Animated Short Film1
- Feb 10 2009How Sure Is the Sure Thing?0
- Feb 6 2009Twitter Review: The Strangers0
- Feb 6 2009Box Office Power Rankings: January 30-February 1, 20090
- Feb 6 2009Twitter Review: Planet Terror0
- Jan 30 2009Box Office Power Rankings: January 23-35, 20090
- Jan 30 2009Tweet!0
- Jan 25 2009The Critics Versus Oscar4
- Jan 23 2009Box Office Power Rankings: January 16-19, 20090
- Jan 22 2009Which Should Win Best Picture?0
- Jan 22 2009Best Picture Winner0
- Jan 16 2009New Host1
- Jan 16 2009Box Office Power Rankings: January 9-11, 20090
- Jan 7 2009Box Office Power Rankings: January 2-4, 20090
- Jan 2 2009Box Office Power Rankings: December 26-28, 20080
- Dec 31 2008To Hell and Back: My 2008 Album0
- Dec 23 2008Box Office Power Rankings: December 19-21, 20080
- Dec 18 2008Culture Snob on Ebert's "Answer Man"0
- Dec 17 2008Box Office Power Rankings: December 12-14, 20083
- Dec 12 2008Battle of the Summer Superheroes1
- Dec 11 2008Box Office Power Rankings: December 5-7, 20080
- Dec 2 2008Box Office Power Rankings: November 28-30, 20080
- Nov 26 2008Box Office Power Rankings: November 21-23, 20080
- Nov 21 2008Vampires0
- Nov 19 2008Box Office Power Rankings: November 14-16, 20080
- Nov 12 2008Fixed Favorites1
- Nov 12 2008Bond0
- Nov 12 2008Box Office Power Rankings: November 7-9, 20082
- Nov 6 2008Box Office Power Rankings: October 31-November 2, 20080
- Oct 31 2008Thomson Twinge2
- Oct 30 2008Clerks Chasing Silent Porno0
- Oct 28 2008Box Office Power Rankings: October 24-26, 20080
- Oct 28 2008Alive, Kicking, and Delivering Just Desserts0
- Oct 24 2008Box Office Power Rankings: October 17-19, 20081
- Oct 17 2008W.0
- Oct 15 2008Box Office Power Rankings: October 10-12, 20080
- Oct 14 2008Confidence Artist0
- Oct 10 2008Box Office Power Rankings: October 3-5, 20080
- Oct 3 2008That's Just Nitpicking, Isn't It?3
- Oct 2 2008My Best Post0
- Oct 2 2008Jumping Out of the Corner0
- Oct 1 2008Box Office Power Rankings: September 26-28, 20084
- Sep 30 2008Auto Pilot0
- Sep 26 2008Summer 2008 Hits0
- Sep 24 2008Box Office Power Rankings: September 19-21, 20082
- Sep 16 2008Box Office Power Rankings: September 12-14, 20080
- Sep 15 2008Words to Live by0
- Sep 15 2008On David Foster Wallace1
- Sep 11 2008Devil's Rejects2
- Sep 11 2008"Film Critics Seem to Have a Greater Sense of Community"4
- Sep 9 2008Box Office Power Rankings: September 5-7, 20080
- Sep 4 2008A Big Arrow0
- Sep 4 2008A Challenge6
- Sep 3 2008Box Office Power Rankings: August 29-September 1, 20080
- Aug 27 2008The Psychopathic Chicken (and Other Lessons of Evolution)3
- Aug 26 2008Box Office Power Rankings: August 22-24, 20083
- Aug 25 2008The Private Language of Monkeys1
- Aug 20 2008Re-Design4
- Aug 20 2008Box Office Power Rankings: August 15-17, 20083
- Aug 19 2008Continuing on0
- Aug 19 2008Earning the Buzz0
- Aug 13 2008A Sound of Thunder5
- Aug 12 2008Box Office Power Rankings: August 8-10, 20080
- Aug 8 2008Shit That Didn't Get Wrote: Memento and Friends 3
- Aug 8 2008Box Office Power Rankings: August 1-3, 20080
- Jul 30 2008Box Office Power Rankings: July 25-27, 20080
- Jul 25 2008Neat ... Oh.0
- Jul 24 2008Box Office Power Rankings: July 18-20, 20080
- Jul 23 2008Condensed Culture Snob1
- Jul 22 2008The Knight's Armor11
- Jul 21 2008The Dark Knight: Haiku Squared6
- Jul 17 2008Don't Disappoint Me, Freak8
- Jul 16 2008Box Office Power Rankings: July 4-13, 20081
- Jul 14 2008Postscript: The Self-Involvement Blog-a-thon0
- Jul 12 2008Aborted Ideas for the Self-Involvement Blog-a-thon 2
- Jul 11 2008A Letter to My Daughter4
- Jul 10 2008BOUNCE•E1
- Jul 10 2008Culture Snob, by the Numbers0
- Jul 9 2008Reconstructing a Life0
- Jul 8 2008The Humans Are Dead0
- Jul 8 2008The Self-Involvement Blog-a-thon: July 9-13, 20087
- Jul 3 2008Box Office Power Rankings: June 27-29, 20080
- Jul 2 2008Pixar Perfect0
- Jul 2 2008Could Somebody Please Cover My Eyes? 0
- Jun 25 2008Bizarro Box Office Power Rankings: 2008, 22-13 June3
- Jun 23 2008Mr. Bean and the Destruction of the Hierarchical Economies of the Film Industry0
- Jun 16 2008How Oddly ... Familiar2
- Jun 13 2008Bad Buzz0
- Jun 13 2008Box Office Power Rankings: June 6-8, 20080
- Jun 11 2008Separation Anxiety (Or: Say Goodbye to Your Little Friend)1
- Jun 5 2008Announcing the Self-Involvement Blog-a-thon: July 9-13, 20081
- Jun 4 2008Box Office Power Rankings: May 16-June 1, 20080
- May 23 2008Beyond Repulsion1
- May 15 2008Box Office Power Rankings: May 9-11, 20080
- May 15 2008The First Thing We Do, Let's Fire All the Critics0
- May 12 2008Children Shouldn't Play with Dead Things0
- May 9 2008Box Office Power Rankings: May 2-4, 20080
- May 8 2008Production Design Blog-a-thon0
- May 2 2008Moral Abstraction1
- May 2 2008The Week of Quitting0
- May 2 2008Box Office Power Rankings: April 18-27, 20080
- Apr 18 2008Burnt Toast4
- Apr 18 2008Box Office Power Rankings: April 11-13, 20080
- Apr 9 2008Box Office Power Rankings: March 28-April 6, 20080
- Apr 8 2008I Will Make You Like Me0
- Apr 2 2008Rough-Edged Perfection2
- Mar 27 2008Box Office Power Rankings: March 14-23, 20080
- Mar 18 2008Let's Go Slumming: Appreciating Candyman1
- Mar 14 2008Box Office Power Rankings: March 7-9, 20080
- Mar 13 2008My Dinner with Christopher Nolan0
- Mar 7 2008Goodbye to Cynicism5
- Mar 7 2008Box Office Power Rankings: February 29-March 2, 20080
- Feb 29 2008Fixing the Oscars: A Modest Proposal0
- Feb 29 2008Box Office Power Rankings: February 22-24, 20080
- Feb 22 2008Questions of Credibility6
- Feb 22 2008Final Oscar Predictions2
- Feb 20 2008Box Office Power Rankings: February 15-18, 20080
- Feb 14 2008Box Office Power Rankings: January 25-February 10, 20080
- Feb 3 2008I'm a Daddy4
- Jan 28 2008Ahhhh ... Family Tradition0
- Jan 28 2008Box Office Power Rankings: January 18-21, 20080
- Jan 24 2008Amateur Hours0
- Jan 23 2008My 2007 Album1
- Jan 22 2008Your Best Picture Winner Is ...2
- Jan 17 2008Box Office Power Rankings: January 11-13, 20081
- Jan 10 2008Box Office Power Rankings: January 4-6, 20080
- Jan 6 2008Box Office Power Rankings: December 28-30, 20070
- Dec 27 2007Box Office Power Rankings: December 21-23, 20070
- Dec 26 2007Can the Left Find God?2
- Dec 19 2007Anton Chigurh0
- Dec 19 2007Box Office Power Rankings: December 14-16, 20070
- Dec 12 2007Devil on My Trail4
- Dec 12 2007Box Office Power Rankings: December 7-9, 20070
- Dec 11 2007Bye Bye, Blog-a-thon. Stay Strong.0
- Dec 8 2007Short-Film Week: In Praise of the Music Video0
- Dec 7 2007Short-Film Week: The Bar at the End of the Line2
- Dec 6 2007Short-Film Week: A Sweet, Whimsical, Dirty Movie About Rape or Regression5
- Dec 6 2007Box Office Power Rankings: November 30-December 2, 20070
- Dec 5 2007Short-Film Week: A Short Film About Failure3
- Dec 3 2007Short-Film Week: "Gem" as Faint Praise1
- Dec 2 2007Short-Film Week: The Addict1
- Nov 30 2007Short-Film Week: Introductory Thoughts0
- Nov 30 2007The "Short-Film Week" Blog-a-thon: December 2-8, 20070
- Nov 30 2007Box Office Power Rankings: November 23-25, 20070
- Nov 21 2007Box Office Power Rankings: November 16-18, 20070
- Nov 20 2007"Short-Film Week" Logos0
- Nov 16 2007The Clumsy Din of Chance4
- Nov 16 2007Announcing the "Short-Film Week" Blog-a-thon: December 2-8, 20070
- Nov 15 2007Box Office Power Rankings: November 9-11, 20070
- Nov 14 2007Why Screenwriting Is a Bad Career Choice from a Labor-Negotiation Standpoint1
- Nov 10 2007Magnolia: The Drunken Commentary Track0
- Nov 9 2007Box Office Power Rankings: November 2-4, 20070
- Nov 8 2007The Blossom: Jim Kurring2
- Nov 7 2007What Would Jesus Read?0
- Nov 6 2007A Most Dangerous Word0
- Nov 6 2007None More Black, Turned Up to 110
- Nov 2 2007Final Thoughts: 31 Flicks That Give You the Willies0
- Nov 1 2007Box Office Power Rankings: October 26-28, 20070
- Oct 31 2007Totally Unrelated: Getting Used to It0
- Oct 25 2007Give Him Your Willie! Errr ... Willies0
- Oct 25 2007Not One of Us3
- Oct 24 2007Box Office Power Rankings: October 19-21, 20070
- Oct 19 2007The Eyes of Anna1
- Oct 17 2007Box Office Power Rankings: October 12-14, 20070
- Oct 16 2007Open Hand7
- Oct 13 2007Shootin' the Shit0
- Oct 11 2007Box Office Power Rankings: October 5-7, 20070
- Oct 5 2007Fear Is Not Enough4
- Oct 4 2007Strength in Numbers9
- Oct 4 2007Box Office Power Rankings: September 28-30, 20070
- Oct 3 2007Confusing Headline of the Week0
- Oct 2 2007Boo!1
- Sep 27 2007Box Office Power Rankings: September 21-23, 20070
- Sep 20 2007Box Office Power Rankings: September 14-16, 20071
- Sep 13 2007Hung Out to Dry3
- Sep 12 2007Box Office Power Rankings: September 7-9, 20070
- Sep 7 2007Haiku Squared: Ravenous0
- Sep 7 2007No Stock Footage0
- Sep 6 2007Box Office Power Rankings: August 31-September 3, 20070
- Sep 1 2007The Bogeyman: Five Minutes with Halloween0
- Aug 29 2007Fixing the Movie Industry: A Modest Proposal6
- Aug 28 2007Box Office Power Rankings: August 24-26, 20070
- Aug 28 2007Ain't No Sunshine3
- Aug 27 2007How Bizarro!0
- Aug 21 2007Box Office Power Rankings: August 17-19, 20070
- Aug 16 2007Box Office Power Rankings: August 10-12, 20070
- Aug 8 2007See What You Want to See: Five Minutes with Hour of the Wolf7
- Aug 8 2007Box Office Power Rankings: August 3-5, 20070
- Aug 4 2007Selling It: The Moulin Rouge Drunken Commentary Track1
- Aug 1 2007Smells Like Teen Spirit: Five Minutes with Perfume0
- Aug 1 2007Box Office Power Rankings: July 27-29, 20070
- Jul 29 2007Keepin' It (Mostly) Real0
- Jul 25 2007Box Office Power Rankings: July 20-22, 20072
- Jul 18 2007Snuffing Out and Getting Off3
- Jul 18 2007Box Office Power Rankings: July 13-15, 20070
- Jul 13 2007Possessed by Pain0
- Jul 13 2007All About Me0
- Jul 11 2007Box Office Power Rankings: July 6-8, 20070
- Jul 6 2007The Best of Bad Choices0
- Jul 5 2007Tagged: Eight Facts That Reveal Culture Snob's Essence5
- Jul 3 2007Box Office Power Rankings: June 29-July 1, 20070
- Jul 3 2007Beyond Sacred Steel0
- Jun 26 2007Box Office Power Rankings: June 22-24, 20070
- Jun 19 2007Box Office Power Rankings: June 15-17, 20070
- Jun 14 2007Killing The Sopranos: Five Minutes with the Finale5
- Jun 12 2007Box Office Power Rankings: June 8-10, 20070
- Jun 10 2007Fuckity Fuck Fuck: Five Minutes on The Wire2
- Jun 6 2007A New Spark1
- Jun 6 2007Letting Go0
- Jun 5 2007Box Office Power Rankings: June 1-3, 20070
- May 29 2007Box Office Power Rankings: May 25-28, 20070
- May 25 2007Box Office Power Rankings: May 18-20, 20070
- May 25 2007A Sense of Place11
- May 24 2007That's No Moon. It's a Blog-a-thon.3
- May 20 2007Five Minutes: Pan's Labyrinth2
- May 19 2007Five Minutes: JFK1
- May 18 2007Illegal Alien4
- May 17 2007Five Minutes: The Truman Show7
- May 17 2007Good Luck with That3
- May 16 2007Why Are There Frogs Falling from the Sky?25
- May 16 2007Hedwig and the Angry Inch and Plato's Symposium2
- May 16 2007The Last Samurai and Blind Idealism2
- May 15 2007The Misunderstood Blog-a-thon10
- May 10 2007The Uses of Atrocity0
- May 2 2007Colonel Moltisanti ... in the Kitchen ... with a Knife4
- Apr 20 2007The Too-Towering Babel0
- Apr 19 2007Mental Illness, Not Movies3
- Apr 18 2007Simple Is Not Easy0
- Apr 12 2007Announcing the Misunderstood Blog-a-thon: May 16-20, 20079
- Apr 6 2007How Sexy Am I Now?6
- Mar 28 2007Briefly: 13 Unrated Superheroes Seek Confidential Serenity3
- Mar 25 2007Lady in the Water: Drunken Commentary Track0
- Mar 16 2007Links, Briefly0
- Mar 12 2007The Prestige: Drunken Commentary Track4
- Mar 9 2007Pan's Labia-rinth: A Visual Companion0
- Mar 8 2007 Naked Music, Full Life0
- Mar 4 2007Freedom Isn't Free: A Not-So-Drunken Commentary Track for Three Colors: Blue0
- Mar 2 2007Rats! A Problem of Redundancy0
- Feb 27 2007Haiku Squared: Trouble Every Day1
- Feb 19 2007Conventional Contrarianism: A Practical Guide1
- Feb 15 2007Not-So-Drunken Commentary Track: The Descent1
- Feb 13 2007The End Is Near! Vote for Me!0
- Feb 9 2007RIFF: Reading Is Fucking Formidable0
- Feb 6 2007Ode to an Anachronism1
- Feb 2 2007Mix-and-Match Haiku: Kissed0
- Jan 31 2007Interpretation Trumps Inspiration0
- Jan 28 2007The Forgotten Audience4
- Jan 18 2007She Shoots Horses, Don't She?0
- Jan 2 2007Mix 20062
- Dec 14 2006Vengeance Is Hers2
- Dec 12 2006Review Haiku for You0
- Nov 22 2006(Under-)Appreciating Altman0
- Nov 9 2006The Pleasure Principle1
- Nov 5 2006Abracadabra0
- Oct 30 2006Sucking Wonderfully0
- Oct 26 2006Promissory Notes of a Better Life3
- Oct 26 2006Evolved Sexuality2
- Oct 25 2006The Band-Name Project0
- Oct 13 2006Chronically Crappy3
- Sep 25 2006Junior Brown at River Roots Live1
- Sep 24 2006Alejandro Escovedo at River Roots Live5
- Sep 23 2006Martin Sexton at River Roots Live2
- Sep 22 2006Ignorance and Taste: Catching Up on Links0
- Sep 21 2006With a Little Help from His Friends0
- Sep 20 2006Cock Tale0
- Sep 15 2006Demon Dog Dump0
- Sep 14 2006That Darn Jew0
- Sep 13 2006Maybe We Can Hire ... The A-Team0
- Sep 10 2006A Blessing and a Curse0
- Aug 31 2006Jesus Ain't That Magic1
- Aug 25 2006This Could Be It0
- Aug 25 2006The U.S. Military: More Than Meets the Eye?0
- Aug 24 2006My Very Excellent Mother Just Sent Us Newtons?0
- Aug 23 2006Whores and the Whoring Whores Who Sell Them Out0
- Aug 18 2006Unlikely Hope0
- Aug 15 2006People Will Most Definitely Come1
- Aug 11 2006Week-End Link Dump0
- Aug 11 2006What We Talk About When We Talk About Film1
- Aug 10 2006Willfully Difficult0
- Aug 9 2006You Are Blind Because You Remain Attached to Previous Incarnations of My Greatness3
- Aug 7 2006The Tell-Tale Tapes? The Trouble with Caché6
- Aug 4 2006Thank you! Good night!0
- Aug 2 2006My Wife Is No Miss January3
- Aug 2 2006How to Apologize ... Mostly0
- Jul 26 2006Cut the Cheese, Please!0
- Jul 26 2006Double Stuf(f)ed0
- Jul 24 2006Canadian? Or the Young Marcia Cross?0
- Jul 22 2006Drunken Commentary Track: Incident at Loch Ness0
- Jul 21 2006Former Vice President in the Water0
- Jul 16 2006Remembering to Forget0
- Jul 13 2006Nothing New Under the Sun0
- Jul 12 2006Good Stupid0
- Jul 12 2006Is HD DVD Already Dead?0
- Jul 11 2006Why the World Doesn't Need This Superman0
- Jul 7 2006Leaving Yourself on the Page0
- Jul 5 2006More Meat0
- Jul 3 2006The Movie I Watch the Most1
- Jun 29 2006They Had You at "Hello"0
- Jun 29 2006Rather Routine0
- Jun 27 2006Superman and the Crucified Christ2
- Jun 23 2006Stretching Superman1
- Jun 21 2006Dissociative Disorder: Movies with Multiple Personalities0
- Jun 12 2006Blowing It0
- Jun 9 2006Toodle-fucking-oo, Part Two0
- Jun 6 2006Toodle-fucking-oo0
- Jun 2 2006How We Like to Watch2
- May 31 2006Reasons to Hike Wolf Creek0
- May 25 2006As Lost as Ever0
- May 22 2006My Father the Hero0
- May 17 2006Mr. Pink('s) Rules0
- May 17 2006The Good Book in the Internet Age0
- May 12 2006An Early Contender for Sentence of the Year0
- May 11 2006Keeping Your (Emotional) Distance0
- May 10 2006Movie Critics Suck: Exhibit A0
- May 10 2006On the Mundanity of Spooge0
- May 7 2006Drunken Commentary Track: I ♥ Huckabees0
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May 5 2006Inflammatory Acclamatories
* 0 - Apr 26 2006The Accidental Band0
- Apr 25 2006Films in 17 Syllables0
- Apr 21 2006Good Night, and Good Riddance.0
- Apr 13 2006On the Uses of Horror0
- Apr 11 2006The Truman Show0
- Apr 9 2006Shattered Glass: The Inaugural Drunken Commentary Track0
- Apr 5 2006Uncovering Iron John0
- Apr 4 2006The Stupidity and Wit of James Walcott0
- Apr 2 2006The Devolution of Atom Egoyan0
- Mar 23 2006Cinderella's a Whore0
- Mar 23 2006A First0
- Mar 22 2006The Death of Tony Soprano0
- Mar 21 2006Joyful Discomfort0
- Mar 14 2006Link Dump0
- Mar 10 2006Last Words on Crash0
- Mar 10 2006Family Matters0
- Mar 8 2006Neko Notes0
- Mar 7 2006Sign of the Times0
- Mar 3 2006Honoring Altman2
- Mar 3 2006Assessing Oscar and Hollywood0
- Mar 2 2006In Praise of Hate0
- Feb 26 2006When Good Isn't Good Enough0
- Feb 23 2006If Critics Were King-Makers0
- Feb 22 2006Resistance Is Futile0
- Feb 22 2006Can't Escape the Zydeco0
- Feb 16 2006Building Up by Tearing Down0
- Feb 16 2006Nietzsche Is a Punk Rocker0
- Feb 16 2006The Movies That Were Not There0
- Feb 15 2006Full Throttle0
- Feb 10 2006Crash and the Coasts0
- Feb 7 2006No School for Scandal1
- Jan 31 2006A Lean, Mean Shakespearean Machine1
- Jan 24 2006A Movie for One0
- Jan 16 2006Lessons in Documentary Filmmaking0
- Jan 11 2006Feeling Yourself Disintegrate0
- Jan 10 2006Intolerable Cruelty0
- Jan 4 2006God Said, "Eh ... "0
- Dec 28 2005Extraordinary Music from the Margins of 20050
- Dec 27 2005War Won't Tear Us Apart0
- Dec 20 2005Anthropomorphic Widescreen0
- Dec 15 2005The King(dom) of Comedy0
- Nov 30 2005Building a Film-Book Library0
- Nov 29 2005Fear Is Blind0
- Nov 23 2005There's a Hole in the Goblet, Mike Newell, Mike Newell0
- Nov 23 2005The Mouse That Roared0
- Nov 21 2005The Evil That Men Do0
- Nov 21 2005You Lost Me at "Gosh!"0
- Nov 16 2005Show of Commerce, Show of Art0
- Nov 9 2005Dance Crazes and Democratization0
- Nov 8 2005Let's Do the Time Warp Again0
- Oct 27 2005A Circle of Loss0
- Oct 20 2005The Art of Being Humbled0
- Oct 12 2005Songs of Innocence and of Experience2
- Oct 11 2005War Without End0
- Oct 11 2005You Are Forgiven0
- Oct 4 2005Ghost in the Shell0
- Sep 29 2005All Alone0
- Sep 27 2005At the Drive-in0
- Sep 21 2005A Suffocating Density0
- Sep 21 2005Subverting the Perverted0
- Sep 13 2005The Case of the Missing Spine0
- Sep 12 2005We Are Very Strange0
- Aug 31 2005When Bad Movies Do Good Things0
- Aug 24 2005Eat the Rich0
- Aug 22 2005Pornographer and Whore0
- Aug 17 2005The Spoiler's Creed3
- Aug 15 2005(What's So Funny ’Bout) Grief, Strife, and Vigilantism?0
- Aug 10 2005His Fingers Do the Talking0
- Aug 10 2005Sloppy, Fast, Anarchic ... Bluegrass0
- Jul 29 2005All My Sins Remembered0
- Jun 29 2005Passionate — or Pissed? — About Polka0
- Jun 29 2005The Phantom Nuance0
- Jun 8 2005Temptation's Taunt0
- May 24 2005The Enigma: Lyle Lovett0
- May 10 2005A Roller Coaster, for Better and Worse0
- Apr 28 2005A Live-Action Cartoon0
- Apr 12 2005Dumb About Life0
- Mar 22 2005Caution! Children at Play0
- Mar 16 2005Rooting for a Bad Guy0
- Mar 16 2005Gore Porn0
- Mar 5 2005Grow Up!0
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