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

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..

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..

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

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….

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….

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 ….

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

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….

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 ….

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

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….

Every year, I'm depressed that so few of the documentaries I've loved break through..

Cillian Murphy is the guy who battled viral zombies in '28 Days Later' and put a gas-spewing bag over his head in 'Batman Begins'. With his pallor, c….

Along with my peers, I gripe about the increasing number of superhero films, and I'm sad that so many critics so uncritically use words like franchis….

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 ….

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….

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….

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….