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No Country for Bat-Men: The Superb, Disturbing Noir Knight

Alex Remington | Posted 07.27.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

For us, all that remains is to watch the movie and feel the chills, and be so engrossed by the Joker as to forget what befell the actor behind him.

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Hellboy 2 Stands Out in a Weak Summer for Movies

Alex Remington | Posted 07.24.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

Other than WALL-E, there haven't been many instant classics this summer, but Hellboy 2: The Golden Army is a movie I'll be happy to watch over and over again.

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Batman and Robin (1949): Marching to a Bureaucratic Beat

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment

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Erik Lundegaard

Batman is now less vigilante than establishment figure. He doesn't drop off crooks at the local precinct with bat stickers on their foreheads; now he hangs with Commissioner Gordon in his office and plots strategy.

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"Hellboy II: The Golden Army" Movie Review Roundup: Fun As Hell

Huffington Post | Posted 07.18.2008 | Entertainment

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The long-awaited sequel to "Hellboy" hits theaters tomorrow (July 11), and it looks like it's going to be fun as hell. "Hellboy II: The Golden Army" c...

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Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.16.2008 | Entertainment

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Erik Lundegaard

Given Pearl Harbor, and Hollywood's track record with stereotypes before Pearl Harbor, the racism towards Japanese people in 1943's Batman serial is unsurprising.

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Are Critically Acclaimed Movies More Popular? They Were Last Year

Erik Lundegaard | Posted 07.15.2008 | Entertainment

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Erik Lundegaard

Both critics and moviegoers seem to like quality and not crap. Is this revelatory? In a society that dismisses quality, and that holds up crap for imitation, it certainly feels revelatory.

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WALL-E: Pixar's Animated Robots Are Better Actors Than Most Live Humans

Alex Remington | Posted 07.11.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

After billions of dollars of box office revenues and over a decade of unbroken blockbusters, Pixar might just be making the world a better place.

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Why Entertainment Weekly Rules the World

Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts | Posted 07.01.2008 | Media

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Tyler Cowen and Seth Roberts

Too many readers are concerned about prestige rather than learning something. EW takes us to new places because the magazine covers only what is new.

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Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull: Was it Worth Bringing Indy back? Well, Kind of.

Alex Remington | Posted 06.04.2008 | Entertainment

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Alex Remington

It looks and feels like an Indiana Jones movie, although the plot's more rickety than usual, the by-committee script's only serviceable, and the pleasures are modest relative to the expectations attached.

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Studios Let Small-Market Critics Feel Really Important

Washington Post | Paul Farhi | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media

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No self-respecting movie advertisement would go out in public these days without a few blurbs from critics praising the movie as (pick one) "Delightfu...

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