Voices
John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
Pride and sport collide in Bennett Miller's new film 'Foxcatcher'
Film
Rory Kennedy's 'Last Days in Vietnam'
Film
In 1937, Paramount Pictures released “Make Way for Tomorrow,” a drama that documentarian Errol Morris once declared “the most depressing movie ever made, providing reassurance that everything will definitely end badly.” In it, an elderly couple (Victor Young, Beulah Bondi), l
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Richard Linklater's journey through 'Boyhood'
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There is nothing quite like a nun with a voice.This month, 50 years after Soeur Sourire, the Belgian singing sister, topped the charts with her pop hit “Dominique” (and received the dubious distinction two years later of being portrayed on screen by Debbie Reynolds), Sister Cristina Scuc
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The film "Ida" is "less concerned with recounting the Holocaust than in absorbing its echoes."
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The biblical ambition of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’
Film
"We’d like to applaud the filmmakers for raising reading levels, in an industry where dumbing-down is the business model." Film critic John Anderson reviews 'Divergent.'
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Is it blasphemous to say that the problem with “Noah” is the story? That it may not be substantial enough to float a star-driven, effects-laden, $125-million movie? Or that director Darren Aronofsky’s attempt to hang flesh, blood, human logic and nautical mechanics on a tale that b
Books
The night before this review was being tortured into near-coherence a musical group called the Postal Service appeared on ldquo The Colbert Report rdquo promoting its new release ldquo Give Up rdquo mdash which was actually recorded 10 years earlier and was being re-released The history of