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James Bowman

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 | Aug 13, 2009

Every so often for the last half-century or so, we have seen some American arriving, breathless and sweating, with the…

by | Aug 5, 2009

Before I went to see it, I had heard from more than one source that The Hurt Locker, directed by…

by | Aug 4, 2009

Bruno — the official umlaut over the “u” is, as in certain heavy metal pop groups, merely decorative and non-functional…

by | Jul 24, 2009

As I was sitting in my local cineplex and waiting, not very hopefully, for the new Star Trek movie to…

by | Jul 20, 2009

As I gave my ticket to the young woman at the entrance to the cinema showing the beautifully but also…

by | Jul 8, 2009

There are a number of ways to classify Michael Mann’s — or Johnny Depp’s — Public Enemies, the most obvious…

by | Jun 30, 2009

The standard ratings notice at the end of the New York Times review of Anne Fletcher’s The Proposal reads as follows:…

by | Jun 16, 2009

What do you suppose are the chances that the brothers Raimi, Sam and Ivan, who are responsible for Drag Me…

by | Jun 15, 2009

The first thing to realize about Todd Phillips’s The Hangover is that it contains no actual hangover — not in…

by | Jun 8, 2009

Though I don’t quite know why, I’ve been having some trouble defining for myself just what it was I so…

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