
Dead Heat
Friends ask what I think of the Iraq war. My answer: Put on the burgers first. Otherwise they’ll burn. Don’t ask where.

Trust
The sad idealism of hurt. Too bad Hal Hartley ever had to grow up.

The Rothmund Void
The United States is not an authoritarian state, but it's getting into the bad habit of expecting its people not to talk back.

Boyhood; Youth
Coetzee's fictionalized autobiographies of infancy in South Africa and student life in London are self-critical and razor sharp.

The Contender
Gary Oldman should get his own building on Bad Guy Boulevard.

Fight Club
That other guy, the one getting laid and bloodied, hey, he may be you.

The Vibrator
"Others would feel up Betsy Caledonia, who was 13 but had the pellucid skin of an infant. She’d get a dollar for each boy."

Memento
Nolan's movie works so hard to remember it forgets some basics.