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Terrible Nova

Seth McKelvey | 12.18.2011 3:18 PM

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Mission: Impossible—Ghost Protocol and Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows

Trivial pursuits

Kurt Loder | 12.15.2011 6:00 PM

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The Best of 2011

Reason writers on books, movies, music, & more

Reason Staff | 12.14.2011 12:00 PM

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Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and Young Adult

Missions unaccomplished.

Kurt Loder | 12.8.2011 6:00 PM

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Shame

Sex machine in the city

Kurt Loder | 12.1.2011 6:00 PM

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Briefly Noted: Enhance Yourself

Peter Suderman | 11.30.2011 12:00 PM

Politics

Briefly Noted: Eye to Eye With Ayn

Jacob Sullum | 11.30.2011 11:20 AM

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Briefly Noted: Green Textiles

Ronald Bailey | 11.30.2011 10:10 AM

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Hugo

Martin Scorsese's glowing tribute to the magic of movies.

Kurt Loder | 11.22.2011 5:00 PM

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The Descendants

Family feud

Kurt Loder | 11.17.2011 6:00 PM

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J. Edgar

Machiavelli on the Potomac.

Kurt Loder | 11.10.2011 6:00 PM

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Fighting the Power

Peter Suderman | 11.4.2011 4:00 PM

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Creative Construction

Lucy Steigerwald | 11.4.2011 3:59 PM

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Honest Bill

Jacob Sullum | 11.4.2011 3:58 PM

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Good News About Bad Habits

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 11.4.2011 3:29 PM

Policy

How Earth's Garden Grows

Ronald Bailey | 11.4.2011 3:19 PM

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Tower Heist

Grand theft

Kurt Loder | 11.3.2011 5:00 PM

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The Rum Diary and In Time

Time travels

Kurt Loder | 10.27.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

John Paul Stevens' Faint-Hearted Liberalism

The retired justice's new memoir reveals an uneasy relationship with the Bill of Rights.

Damon Root | 10.26.2011 4:30 PM

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Martha Marcy May Marlene

Who's that girl?

Kurt Loder | 10.21.2011 5:30 PM

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Paranormal Activity 3

Halloween begins.

Kurt Loder | 10.20.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

Sucking in the American Century

A stunt novel tracks the rise of the state and the decline of the country.

Tim Cavanaugh | 10.20.2011 10:30 AM

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The Skin I Live In

House of horror

Kurt Loder | 10.14.2011 2:00 PM

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The Thing

Return engagement

Kurt Loder | 10.13.2011 4:30 PM

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Dirty Girl

Two for the road

Kurt Loder | 10.7.2011 6:00 PM

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The Ides of March and Human Centipede II

A political thriller from George Clooney, a horror flick from hell

Kurt Loder | 10.6.2011 4:30 PM

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Briefly Noted: Whodunit? Who Knows?

Peter Suderman | 10.3.2011 10:02 AM

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Briefly Noted: Parental Profanity

Jacob Sullum | 10.3.2011 10:00 AM

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Briefly Noted: Alien Nation

Mike Riggs | 10.3.2011 10:00 AM

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Briefly Noted: Blackwater: The Novel

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 10.3.2011 10:00 AM

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Take Shelter and 50/50

The end is near. Or is it?

Kurt Loder | 9.29.2011 6:00 PM

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Abduction

Twilight star Taylor Lautner fails to become the next Jason Bourne.

Kurt Loder | 9.23.2011 10:30 AM

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Killer Elite

World of confusion

Kurt Loder | 9.22.2011 6:00 PM

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Drive and Straw Dogs

Blood work

Kurt Loder | 9.15.2011 6:00 PM

Politics

Lochner Isn't a Dirty Word

Correcting the cartoonish vilification of a libertarian Supreme Court decision

Damon Root | 9.14.2011 12:00 PM

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Contagion and Warrior

Battle scenes

Kurt Loder | 9.8.2011 6:00 PM

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The Debt and A Good Old Fashioned Orgy

An ace Cold War thriller and a detumescent sex-com

Kurt Loder | 9.1.2011 6:00 PM

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Colombiana and Our Idiot Brother

Zoe Saldana goes into action, Paul Rudd goes with the flow.

Kurt Loder | 8.25.2011 6:00 PM

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Fright Night

Colin Farrell is a master of darkness in this superior remake.

Kurt Loder | 8.18.2011 4:30 PM

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30 Minutes or Less

Here be morons

Kurt Loder | 8.11.2011 6:00 PM

Economics

Freakonomics: The Movie

Jacob Sullum | 8.3.2011 3:30 PM

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A John's Life

Brian Doherty | 8.3.2011 3:28 PM

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The Taxman As Literature

Peter Suderman | 8.3.2011 3:01 PM

Civil Liberties

Guards Keep California in Lockdown

Tim Cavanaugh | 8.3.2011 3:00 PM

Policy

Green Rush

Jacob Sullum | 8.3.2011 3:00 PM

Politics

A Trick of the Mind

Looking for patterns in life and then infusing them with meaning, from alien intervention to federal conspiracy.

Ronald Bailey | 8.2.2011 4:30 PM

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Cowboys & Aliens and Crazy, Stupid, Love

Daniel Craig battles aliens, Steve Carell wins the weekend.

Kurt Loder | 7.28.2011 6:00 PM

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Captain America: The First Avenger

A classic Marvel origin story done right.

Kurt Loder | 7.21.2011 6:00 PM