A "no" is a "yes" when it proves a citizenry cares enough to dirty itself by debating the future. France just showed it's in the game — and then some.
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Nurse Betty
See, that's what trauma gets you... your soap opera true love.
Strangers
Taichi Yamada is very much a "sixth sense" writer — but his ghosts emerge from the inside.
Waiting for the Barbarians
Among the finer postwar allegories, this is Coetzee's first anti-Apartheid blast — perhaps his best.
Outland
Familiarity breeds contempt. Now, Iraq is the land that time forgot.
Yo, Bacon
“Maybe ‘overshare’ is the active component in a new perfume intended to make its users believe they’re in 1940s noir movies.”
Gattaca
Unsettling. Not simplistic. Entertaining. Here's good sci-fi.
Iwo Jima
"When I did not get the meaning of the word caliber, he said, Think of a swallow expelled from eaves traveling at the speed of light."
To Live and Die in L.A.
The young William Petersen gives this thriller some smart clout.
Advocatus diaboli
Saints are the official celebrities of the Roman Catholic Church. Pope John Paul II sensed their significance and installed a [...]
The hand that takes
Never ignore a blinking message. “This is a voice from the past,” says a man whose hushed tones are, to [...]
Getting it Wrong
During the recent papal death and election, a reporter for a major American daily newspaper was asked to file a [...]