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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 | May 21, 2014

Ellen DeGeneres opened this year’s Oscar broadcast with a joke about the two possible outcomes of the nearly four hours…

by | May 19, 2014

A friend of mine once described an eerie noise as being “like a spaceship landing.” Of course no one —…

by | May 7, 2014

There are a few implausibilities at the heart of The Other Woman, Nick Cassavetes’s female revenge fantasy to a script…

by | Apr 30, 2014

In explaining why he wants to save, as he sees it, the cultural heritage of Europe, stolen and spirited away…

by | Apr 14, 2014

“You can’t not love and hate the same person,” says Nick (Jim Broadbent) to Meg (Lindsay Duncan) — “usually in…

by | Apr 10, 2014

If there is anything that is clear about the occasionally unclear Judeo-Christian Scriptural account of the Creation, it is that…

by | Apr 3, 2014

What was that stereotype again? Something about women being fickle and unable to make up their minds? Oh, and being…

by | Mar 31, 2014

The critic for Variety called The Past (Le Passé) by Asghar Farhadi (A Separation) “an exquisitely sculpted family melodrama in which…

by | Mar 25, 2014

The word for “lunchbox” in Hindi is dabba,and the people who deliver lunchboxes, mostly from their wives at home to…

by | Mar 20, 2014

Wes Anderson’s long flirtation with whimsy has finally resulted in their tying the knot in The Grand Budapest Hotel. I’m…

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