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The New York Times’s token conservative columnist, Ross Douthat, bemoans the state of his cause in today’s paper. The latest blow to social conservatism? The supposed unpopularity of Judd Apatow’s latest movie, “Funny People.”

It goes without saying, I believe, that every thirty-something American would call “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” one of their favorite John Hughes movies. And I’ve never really found the post-1990, post-“Home Alone” Hughes oeuvre platable, so an entire decade of productivity is automatically excluded from a list of favorites. With those stipulations in mind, I…

For years movie critics have been trying to figure out why we haven’t had a great Iraq War picture. After six years, the Iraq War is still too “hot”–politically divisive and emotionally unresolved–for filmmakers to distill the experience of overextended veterans and those who waited for them. The only movie that’s come close to bringing…

Meryl Streep portrays pioneer feminist and foodie Julia Child.
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