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George Clooney
July 12, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Latest Deranged Message for George Clooney Is Oddly Flirty
Donald Trump is sounding a little desperate there.
July 11, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Obama Didn’t Even Try to Stop That Brutal Clooney Op-Ed on Biden
George Clooney reportedly called Barack Obama right before that New York Times op-ed urging Biden to drop out.
July 11, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Desperate Trump’s Shocking Response to Clooney’s Biden Withdrawal Call
Donald Trump practically begged Joe Biden to stay in the presidential race.
July 10, 2024
Edith Olmsted
George Clooney Calls on Biden to Withdraw: “The Dam Has Broken”
Clooney urged the president to “save democracy.”
February 16, 2014
Leon Wieseltier
The Shoah and the Art Market
February 7, 2014
Liel Leibovitz
War Movies Used to be Big, Sprawling Things. What Happened?
The trend of small-minded war movies continues
February 6, 2014
David Thomson
Clooney's 'The Monuments Men' Is Dreadful, Smug, and Incoherent
November 21, 2013
David Thomson
Alexander Payne Has Mastered the Midwest. Now He Must Move to the Big City.
September 4, 2013
David Thomson
The Film Festival that Best Predicts the Oscars
February 22, 2013
Walter Kirn
Oscar Grouch
I’d like to thank the Academy for nothing
July 23, 2012
Molly Redden
What Super PAC Would Bruce Wayne Fund? And Other Fictional Millionaires
June 23, 2012
Walter Kirn
Suckerball
February 21, 2012
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: ‘The Artist’ Was Awful—and Other Reasons I’m Not Watching the Oscars
December 13, 2011
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: An Unsparing Portrait of American Breakdown
November 24, 2011
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: A Mainstream Movie for People Tired of Noise and Violence
October 14, 2011
Jonathan Cohn
Daily Deadline: Beware the Ides of March?
July 6, 2011
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: ‘Larry Crowne’ Could Have Tackled the Challenges America Faces Today. Instead, Its Story Is Stale and Cheap.
April 23, 2010
David Thomson
“You Used to Be in Pictures!”
February 4, 2010
Christopher Orr
Oscar Grouching
January 12, 2010
Christopher Orr
The Orrscars 2009

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