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No Concessions: A Moving “Elegy” as Summer Movie Season Draws to a Close
Outside of a few odds and ends, the summer movie season pretty much concludes today. Throw the tarp over the pool, recondition the leaf blower, it’s done. If you’re willing to lay down cash
Read More »No Concessions: Seventies Highs — “Pineapple Express,” “Man on Wire,” and Patti Smith
If I ever run for office, and someone asks the drug-use question, I can honestly say I didn’t inhale. While pop-music critics are a Dionysian lot, snorting coke off groupies’ breasts, film critics are
Read More »No Concessions: Summer Shorts — “Baghead,” “Brideshead,” Etc.
Maybe I’ve been overthinking things. Worrying too much about the corrosive effects of superheroes on the cinema and all that. I did 1,500 words on The Dark Knight last week, and I’m sticking to
Read More »No Concessions: “The Dark Knight”
Watching a superdeluxe presentation of The Dark Knight unfold across the eight-story-tall IMAX theater in Manhattan, I had a nagging question: why was the mayor of Gotham City wearing eyeliner and mascara? The movie
Read More »No Concessions: “Hellboy II” and “Journey to the Center of the Earth”
Like the humans who misjudge or underestimate the big red lug on the big screen, I must apologize to Hellboy. Our first encounter, in 2004, was not a happy one. His debut film lurched
Read More »No Concessions: Let’s Talk About Sex
Sex. You know you want it — and I know you’re not getting it from the movies. And I know you’re not because I’ve been looking myself, and coming up empty. Wanted teases with
Read More »No Concessions: Lazy-Ass Critic Watches New Movies in Bed
I have violated the covenant between reader and critic. You, the reader, expect me, the critic, to leave his home in Brooklyn, get on the subway, and attend screenings 25 or so minutes away
Read More »No Concessions: Odds and “End”
By the calendar it’s not quite summer yet, but the northeast has already wilted under August heat — and the movies already feel spent and depleted, in need of a second wind. The Pixar
Read More »No Concessions: Genghis Khan and Harlan Ellison
You can see the nominees for best foreign-language film at the Oscars coming from a kilometer away. They’re tied to some sort of hot-button issue, or a pivotal historical event in the 20th century
Read More »No Concessions: Indy (and indies)
Like Jack Lemmon in Glengarry Glen Ross, I’m overjoyed to find myself on the big board, with all the cool kids who’ve written “Most Popular” Popdose posts. And I didn’t even have to do
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