My fears are the obvious ones: that marketplace-minded publishers - all four of them - will shy further away from literary fiction, international aut….

If I had to catalog all the moronic plot turns in The Day After Tomorrow, we'd be here until the next ice age. It's just so very bad. You can have a ….

I'm more encouraged by the saplings: new music groups, tiny new venues, entrepreneurial musician-composers who aren't waiting to be discovered but ar….

My reaction to 'Sin City' is easily stated. I loved it. Or, to put it another way, I loved it, I loved it, I loved it. I loved every gorgeous sick di….

The English have a wellspring of comedy that will never be exhausted: the combination of bestial urges and excellent manners..

What can you say about a man who leaps from a helicopter over Manhattan without a parachute in the hope that by increasing his heart rate he'll trans….

Let me tell you, if your marriage is in trouble, skip the therapist and find a psycho. Nothing brings people together faster..

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived)..

Richard Curtis, the writer and director of Love Actually, is brilliant at many things, but his genius, I submit, is for thrusting characters into sit….

Still, you can't complain about the number of movies being made. Never have the means of making movies been so accessible to so many. The problem is ….

I fell in love with Twitter. Fathers, lock up your deadlines..

King Arthur is profoundly stupid and inept.. then there's Clive Owen, rising above it all. Aloof yet watchful, the actor cultivates an inner stillnes….

The economic and technological changes are real, but I just can't bring myself to wax apocalyptic about the future of books..

Ever since the Tim Burton Batman of 1989, it has been de rigueur in movies to focus on the freaky alienation aspect of the superhero's life: This is ….

Well, the movie isn't bad. For a while, I even told myself I liked it, even as it missed one mark after another. But in the end, it's shapeless and b….

The movie is a metaphor for the power of delusional hype--a metaphor for itself..

You can feel righteous fury in every frame of The Magdalene Sisters. The movie is both a masterpiece and a holy hell: Watching it, you feel you're be….

It's no mystery why many of us in the media can't get enough of the fabricators Jayson Blair and Stephen Glass, the latter of whom concocted more tha….

I'd put the most money on Robert Caro's biography of Lyndon Johnson - and not just because we'll probably still be waiting for the final volume in 20….

There will be a competition among critics for the best Paris Hilton insult. Here's my first: Her attention span is so short that she can't even maint….

You won't be reading reviews of the dystopian sci-fi flick Aeon Flux in the papers today because it wasn't screened for the press-and, given that it ….