Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011
What we see in Milk are straw men erected and blown down, over and over again. Anita Bryant made foolish, how hard is that?
Michelle Haimoff | Posted 05.25.2011
There was only one part of the Oscars everyone took seriously: Milk screenwriter Dustin Lance Black's truly remarkable acceptance speech for Best Original Screenplay.
Steven Stamstad | Posted 05.25.2011
Milk understood the power of grassroots organizing, the power of the media and the power of his own charisma to raise awareness, shape public opinion and create action.
Chris Goldberg | Posted 05.25.2011
Sean Penn nails it in Milk (even the Queens accent, which I can personally attest to as a Sunnyside resident). The movie is nearly flawless. It puts most biopics to shame.
Marc Gunther | Posted 05.25.2011
What role should CEOS and big companies play when confronted with controversial issues? Ought they not take a stand on social issues, too?
Jonathan Handel | Posted 05.25.2011
One failing of the otherwise interesting film is that it never gives any insight into the reason behind Milk's rapid career change from insurance to gay insurgency. It's not too much of a stretch to say that Milk was born again.
Marshall Fine | Posted 05.25.2011
There she was, on the screen, in Milk. Anita Bryant, speaking out about "the homosexual agenda." Back in 1977, she was hugely controversial.
Tanene Allison | Posted 05.25.2011
The movie is based on a certain, now almost eerie, fluidness of time, while at the same time being about a distinctly specific time -- merging lines between now and then or here and there.
New York Times | Posted 05.25.2011
Dianne Feinstein is not sure she'll ever be able to watch the movie "Milk," even though she's in it. ... I asked Senator Feinstein, who became mayor...
Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011
Here is the first video look at Gus Van Sant's "Milk." The film tells the story of California's first openly gay elected official, Harvey Milk (played...
AP | LISA LEFF | Posted 05.25.2011