I saw The Dark Knight nearly two weeks ago, and it’s taken me that long to figure out what I think of it and why. In a nutshell, what I think of it is this: the first chunk (not quite half) of the movie is completely brilliant; the rest is a very, very good [...]

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Hancock is not a perfect movie–not by a long shot–though not necessarily for the reasons that reviewers have given. Some critics have complained about the “twist,” which I think is more symptomatic of what we might call the Shyamalanization of movie marketing than a problem with the actual movie, which, in fitting narrative fashion, [...]

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Smart People is not such a smart movie. Though it teeters on the brink of anti-intellectualism, it’s mostly just not so smart. It’s one of these movies about people who hide their feelings in their thinkings, and it’s very clear that feelings are better than thoughts–why, by the end of the movie, hardly [...]

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Yesterday, my boyfriend and I went to see two one-bedroom apartments in our price range, one in Crown Heights and one in Bed-Stuy, both cramped and in mild disrepair. The light plywood doors were flimsy. The bedrooms were monkishly small. The sink in the Bed-Stuy apartment overshot the sink-crevice in the bathroom [...]

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