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Voices
John Anderson is a television critic for The Wall Street Journal and a contributor to The New York Times.
LEADER OF MEN? Steve Carell and Channing Tatum in 'Foxcatcher'
John Anderson
Pride and sport collide in Bennett Miller's new film 'Foxcatcher'
THIS IS THE END. Vietnamese board an American helicopter a half mile from the U.S. Embassy, April 29, 1975.
Film
John Anderson
Rory Kennedy's 'Last Days in Vietnam'
FAMILY TIES. John Lithgow and Alfred Molina in 'Love is Strange"
Film
John Anderson
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
WHAT COMES NEXT? Ellar Coltrane in 'Boyhood'
Film
John Anderson
Richard Linklater's journey through 'Boyhood'
"Band of Sisters" behind the scenes: Mary Fishman with JoAnn Persch, R.S.M., and Pat Murphy, R.S.M.
Film
John Anderson
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
NOVICE. Agata Trzebuchowska in “Ida."
Film
John Anderson
The film "Ida" is "less concerned with recounting the Holocaust than in absorbing its echoes."
BEFORE THE DELUGE. Jennifer Connelly as naameh and Russell Crowe as Noah
Film
John Anderson
The biblical ambition of Darren Aronofsky’s ‘Noah’
CITIZENS UNITED. Shailene Woodley, Ashley Judd, Tony Goldwyn and Ansel Elgort in "Divergent." (CNS photo/Summit)
Film
John Anderson
"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.'
SOMETHING'S COMING. Jennifer Connelly and Russell Crowe in 'Noah'
Film
John Anderson
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
John Anderson
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