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Two Other Gatsbys, Two Better Nicks
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Brilliant Douglas 'Behind the Candelabra ...
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Surprises in 'Gatsby' (Review)
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Ozon's Cat-and-Mouse 'In the House'
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Mira Nair's 'Reluctant Fundamentalist'
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Watch Obama & Conan's Comedy at WHCD
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Affleck in Malick's 'To the Wonder'
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Ricky Gervais' Hilarious, Awful Music Video ...
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Danny Boyle's 'Trance'
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Ryan Gosling in "Place Beyond the Pines"
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Brandon Cronenberg's 'Antiviral'
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Black Comedy 'It's a Disaster'
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Brilliant Melissa McCarthy on SNL (Video ...
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'Room 237,' Kubrick & Malkovich
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Colbert Asks Franco: Are You A Fraud?
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Justin Timberlake's Latest SNL (Video)
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Watch Ricky Gervais in 'The Office Revisited' ...
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'Downton Abbey' Kills Off You-Know-Who
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'Downton' Does 'Breaking Bad' (Video)
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James Franco's Risk-Free 'Oz'
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'Downton Sixbey': Lady Hedith's Answer
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Smart Middle East Doc 'The Gatekeepers'
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Review: Ben Affleck's 'Argo'
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'Downton Abbey': They Killed Who?
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'Girls' Season 2: Lena vs. Hannah
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'Downton Abbey' Season 3 Review
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Bad Title,Good 'Silver Linings Playbook'
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Foxx,Washington On 'Django' & Race (Vide ...
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'Hobbit' Review (Not a Fan)
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Was 'Homeland' Finale Smart or Dumb?
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Hathaway and SNL do Homeland
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Keira Knightley's Chilly 'Anna K.'
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'Skyfall': An Older, Better-Written Bond
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Hugh Laurie,Catherine Keener on 'Oranges ...
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'The Master': Egotists and Cultists
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Jimmy Fallon Sings 'Romney & Bain'
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Fincher, Others in 'Side By Side' Extras
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Watch "Andrew Sarris: Critic in Focus"
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Amy Poehler on Sex, Music (Video)
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Fallon Does "Downton Sixbey, Part 2"
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Jimmy Fallon Goes To Downton Abbey
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Best Downtown Abbey Mashups and Parodies
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Ewan McGregor On "Beginners"
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Daniel Radcliffe As Casey Anthony's Dog
Monthly Archives
Caryn James
The Media Asks Us to Believe in Will and Kate. Also the Easter Bunny.
- By Caryn James
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- April 18, 2011 1:00 AM
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When Prince William and Kate Middleton’s engagement was announced, the media went swoony at the news that he had given her Princess Diana’s sapphire-and-diamond engagement ring. Now, I don’t know what goes through Kate Middleton’s mind – why would I? – but I know this: I would not want to get engaged with a ring from the most spectacularly bad marriage in recent history.
Watch Two Mysterious New Clips from “The Killing”
- By Caryn James
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- April 17, 2011 3:14 AM
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The Killing, AMC’s atmospheric detective series set in Seattle (apparently during monsoon season), continues to pile on the mysteries in tonight fourth episode, as Sarah Linden (the enigmatic Mireille Enos) tracks down the person who murdered teenager Rosie Larsen. You don’t even have to choose between The Killing and the premiere of HBO’s Game of Thrones tonight, but if you watch the splashy, silly new Medieval fantasy series back-to-back with this sharp contemporary mystery, be prepared for your head to spin.
Defending "The Conspirator"
- By Caryn James
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- April 15, 2011 3:27 AM
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I found Robert Redford's The Conspirator to be haunting and effective – far from the history lesson disguised as a movie that I’d been reading about since it premiered at the Toronto Film Festival last year. As Mary Surratt, the woman accused of conspiring in Abraham Lincoln’s assassination, Robin Wright is restrained and enigmatic, reconciled from the start to the fact that she will be railroaded instead of fairly tried in court. And James McAvoy is amazingly good - fierce and thoughtful - as her lawyer, a former Union solider who at first resists defending her. They are vibrantly living characters.
Best Sports on Screen for Non-Sports-Fans: "Friday Night Lights" and Beyond
- By Caryn James
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- April 14, 2011 1:00 AM
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“Football is stupid,” a talented basketball player tells the football coach in the season premiere of Friday Night Lights. “For starters, it celebrates the worst instincts of American culture – aggression, violence . . . ” I tended to agree, but just like that player, who ends up on the football team, I came around about the series.
The "Game of Thrones" Sideshow: The Food, The Weather App, The Feud
- By Caryn James
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- April 13, 2011 1:00 AM
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You can’t have a megaseries without tie-ins. And while I’m not a great fan of HBO’s Game of Thrones (here’s my review) I am amused by the hype and ancillary merchandise.
Video: Justin Bieber, Zach Galifianakis and Other Webby Nominees
- By Caryn James
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- April 12, 2011 7:50 AM
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The Webby Awards are given out to everything from serious news sites to viral videos, but the most entertaining nominees are in the comedy categories (web dramas haven't come close yet). Nominations were announced today, and you can see the full list and vote at the Webby site.
Before HBO's "Cinema Verite," Watch the Real "American Family"
- By Caryn James
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- April 12, 2011 1:30 AM
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One day in the 1970’s the Loud family decided to let cameras follow them around, and before you knew it we had Snooki and table-tossing Real Housewives. An American Family, the first successful reality television series, gripped the country and kept social commentators chattering in 1973, and for more than 20 years has been unavailable. Now substantial, and pretty amazing, excerpts are on the website of WNET, the New York station that produced the series.
Don't-Miss TV: Exhilarating Film "Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child"
- By Caryn James
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- April 12, 2011 1:00 AM
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Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child is Tamra Davis’ extraordinary close-up look at the artist. Davis and Basquiat were friends, and she filmed an extensive interview with him in 1986, two years before he died. More than two decades later, she used that interview as the centerpiece for a film as colorful and lively as the 80’s SoHo it brings back to life. It’s rare for a film to immerse us so thoroughly and intimately in an artist’s life and work.
Review: Brash New Twists in "House" As Thirteen Is Sprung From Prison
- By Caryn James
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- April 11, 2011 1:00 AM
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At the start of tonight’s bold new episode of House, we learn that Thirteen, who mysteriously fled last year, has been in prison. (No real life surprise: Olivia Wilde was off filming Tron). As she walks through the prison gates, she is astonished to find House waiting with a martini -- what more can a girl ask for? And as if the writers were energized by being free of the interminable Cuddy-House on-and-off romance, the episode zooms in a fresh direction.
The Killing: The Season's Smartest New Crime Series
- By Caryn James
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- April 10, 2011 5:30 AM
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It's not too late to catch up with The Killing, AMC's gripping, atmospheric new detective series about the murder of a teenaged girl in Seattle. I was too busy with Borgias and Kennedys to catch last week's premiere myself, but it's easy and definitely worth doing.
