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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
If they are worth a damn, critics hardly ever tell you if they "liked" or "disliked" a work. Critics' job is to describe in such detail that you know what the film (or book, or television show, or and-so-on) is about and how the artist approaches the topic aesthetically. If you need a consumer guide, you can use criticism, but you have to put in some effort of your own when you approach the critics.
BUT, if you are looking for a thumbs-up, thumbs-down reduction and learn that 92% (92%!) of reviewers approve, you might want to give the movie a chance.
(How can you mistake Zacharek's review for anything less than kudos?)
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
Salon headlines in your mailbox
