The Best High-School Show of the Past 30 Years, Round Three: Buffy the Vampire Slayer vs. Friday Night Lights
Which will prevail in our second semifinal matchup — the show set on the gridiron, or the one set on the Hellmouth?
Which will prevail in our second semifinal matchup — the show set on the gridiron, or the one set on the Hellmouth?
Ken Tucker considers it the battle of the Unruly Masterpiece versus the Well-Wrought Masterpiece.
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Martin Scorsese regains his form with the Howard Hughes biopic–Leo DiCaprio vehicle The Aviator.
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The latest triumph from Pixar: a buoyant, heartfelt, hilarious superhero action-comedy.
Jon Stewart wants to treat politics as a joke—and still teach us a civics lesson. He can’t have it both ways.
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If you can’t beat ’em, shout back at ’em.
What did the idiosyncratic director do with his first full-size budget? He put Bill Murray into a father-figure role, and gave him a speargun.
Dave Chappelle blew up and got rich—but not because of his ratings.
Rufus Wainwright breaks out of his emotional straitjacket and finds a whole new range of expression.
In Almodóvar’s poignant new drama, gender twists like a corkscrew and first love lasts forever.