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January 2, 2012

THE MOST OVERRATED FILMS OF 2011

Every year the critics and voters embrace a few films or performances that leave me scratching my head, shaking my fist, or venting my bile, and this year is no exception. The only thing that makes 2011 different is that now I have a blog, and may therefore vent my bile at innocent readers like yourself. Continue reading →

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May 28, 2011

MIDNIGHT IN PARIS (2011)

Midnight in Paris, Woody Allen's latest film, is not really about art, and it's not even really about Paris (although it will make you want to go there). It's about the immature longing for the idealized Paris of the 1920s: the fantasy of the expatriate, modernist mecca of Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein (all of whom appear in the film). It's about that feeling that there was once a golden age when people really knew how to live, of which our sad modern age is just a pale imitation. Continue reading →