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Reformed print journalist Douglas McLennan.

Arts & Culture

Critical Condition

Arts journalism isn't dead, it's just got a serious case of the blogs.

Are you willing to believe Lewis' story?

Film

Keane

Runs Fri., Dec. 16–Thurs., Dec. 22, at Varsity.

Sex Techs

News

Sex Techs

Better living through thoughtfully applied technology.

Film

The Sit-Down

Local journalists, prior to asking stars for autographs, tend to ask them meek questions at roundtable interviews. But…

Moody: more spoof than sweep.

Arts & Culture

The Paper Chase

Follow the money? Follow the script? The real point to this fun Hollywood spoof is its prose storm…

Deep Throats

Arts & Culture

Deep Throats

There's plenty to tell, and not all of it tawdry, in this X-rated account.

Ladies? Ladies? Why are you fleeing the theater?

Film

What Were They Thinking?

A critic looks back on a year's worth of movie miscues.

News

Club Clash

Has Michael Medved been snubbed by his colleagues? He certainly thinks so. “The New York Film Critics Circle…

How do you spell "Kabbalah"? Gere tutors Cross in Bee Season.

Film

Bee Season

Opens Fri., Nov. 18, at Seven Gables and others.

Bloom and Dunst: sullen and weird.

Film

Whose Funeral Is This?

Dead on arrival, Elizabethtown threatens to bury Cameron Crowe's career.

Barnes takes a turn toward the conventional.

Arts & Culture

CSI: Great Wyrley

Detective-story writer turns sleuth. The details are entertainingly real and bizarre—but also too many.

Moshesh takes Good Hope to a better place.

Film

Cape of Good Hope

Runs Fri., Jan. 20–Thurs., Jan. 26, at Grand Illusion

Paul has the better figures . . . 

Arts & Culture

Sticky Fingers

Two new books show why porn is so pervasive—and so hard to put down.

Kerwin and Mace: a 100-minute argument.

Arts & Culture

Teat for Two

ACT's cast does brilliantly by The Goat, but it's only half a masterpiece.

Briskman (right) and Bouchard have a spot of tea and sympathy.

Arts & Culture

Calendar Girls

Enchanted April is a sunny escape at ACT.

An Oscar-worthy Penn?

Film

Mystic River: Clint Eastwood Meets Dennis Lehane

On a drab, detective-show canvas, Eastwood creates a great story of crime and character.

Morton lays back to contemplate her deeds and misdeeds.

Music

Queens of Scots

Lynne Ramsay and Samantha Morton deliver an art-film masterpiece.

Uh-oh: Allgood and Telford recognizing their mutual lack of character.

Arts & Culture

Vincent van No-No

ACT's good actors can't right Brixton's wrongs.

A sultry Bernal in one of his three roles.

Film

Murder and Masks

Almodóvar takes a plunge into film noir, where false identities mean more than the criminal truth.

My bodyguard: Miramax honcho Weinstein towers over his pet cause, Scorsese.

Film

Honesty at the Oscars

What I'd like to see, but won't, on this Sundays telecast.