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James Bowman, our movie and culture critic, is a resident scholar at the Ethics and Public Policy Center. He is the author of Honor: A History and Media Madness: The Corruption of Our Political Culture, both published by Encounter Books.
by | Oct 12, 2009

Ricky Gervais may be the funniest man alive, and he got that way by looking more deeply into the mind…

by | Oct 6, 2009

There is one scene in Michael Moore’s Capitalism: A Love Story where its writer, director, hero and sole credited actor…

by | Oct 2, 2009

The title of Uli Edel’s The Baader Meinhof Complex (Der Baader Meinhof Komplex) suggests a psychological rather than political origin…

by | Sep 29, 2009

IN AN ARTICLE IN A RECENT EDITION OF THE London Daily Telegraph titled “More Sex Please, We’re Grownups,” Josa Young,…

by | Sep 23, 2009

Too bad that My One and Only, which has a lot going for it even apart from the divine RenĂ©e…

by | Sep 22, 2009

On the line of the New York Times review of Bright Star which is normally reserved for descriptions of a movie’s…

by | Sep 14, 2009

Back in 2006, Mike Judge, the man who gave us the immortal Beavis and Butthead as well as “King of…

by | Aug 24, 2009

Living as I do in the metropolitan area of our nation’s capital, I sometimes seem to be surrounded by political…

by | Aug 21, 2009

The one slightly sour note in Nora Ephron’s cloyingly sweet Julie & Julia comes near the end of the film…

by | Aug 18, 2009

It’s hard — well, a little bit hard — not to like District 9. This South African mockumentary by Neill…

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