Staff Reviews

Culture

The Spook Racket

Magicians Todd Robbins and Teller take on the supposedly supernatural in their bloody off-Broadway sensation Play Dead

Damon Root | 4.5.2011 4:30 PM

Politics

Briefly Noted: The Big-Government Apple

Damon Root | 4.4.2011 4:29 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted: A History of Paternalism

Radley Balko | 4.4.2011 4:20 PM

Culture

Sucker Punch

Worlds in collision

Kurt Loder | 3.24.2011 6:30 PM

Politics

Notes from the Underground

How the underground press of the 1960s revolutionized the American media

Greg Beato | 3.24.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

The Book of Mormon

South Park does Broadway

Kurt Loder | 3.23.2011 6:00 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted: HealCam

Radley Balko | 3.19.2011 9:10 AM

Culture

Limitless and Win Win

Cutting corners for fun and profit

Kurt Loder | 3.17.2011 4:30 PM

Culture

Red Riding Hood

Wolf bane

Kurt Loder | 3.10.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Control Yourself

Peter Suderman | 3.4.2011 4:57 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Give Me My Ears Back

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 3.4.2011 4:56 PM

Civil Liberties

Briefly Noted: DIY Exoneration

Radley Balko | 3.4.2011 4:54 PM

Policy

Briefly Noted: Global Warming Thaw

Ronald Bailey | 3.4.2011 4:53 PM

Politics

In the Long Run, Are We All Undead?

When the zombies come, the neocons will be ready.

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 2.18.2011 10:30 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Batman Goes Corporate

Peter Suderman | 2.17.2011 5:38 PM

Culture

Cedar Rapids

John C. Reilly shines in the year's first really funny movie.

Kurt Loder | 2.11.2011 7:00 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Virtually Political

Peter Suderman | 2.4.2011 12:01 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Moose and Squirrel Never Die

Jacob Sullum | 2.4.2011 12:00 PM

Culture

Sanctum

The James Cameron effect

Kurt Loder | 2.3.2011 6:15 PM

Culture

The Green Hornet

Seth Rogen stars as Seth Rogen in another misbegotten comic-book flick.

Kurt Loder | 1.13.2011 6:00 PM

Culture

Season of the Witch

Nicolas Cage, cursed again.

Kurt Loder | 1.7.2011 10:30 AM

Culture

The Year in Books

Reason staffers pick the best books of 2010

Reason Staff | 12.30.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Blue Valentine

Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams undone by the mysteries of love.

Kurt Loder | 12.29.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted Books, Movies, Television, and More

Privacy chic, outlaw bikers, William Gibson's Zero History, an unwitting libertarian documentary, and TV Carnage

Reason Staff | 12.28.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Privacy Chic

Radley Balko | 12.28.2010 11:00 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Anarchy in the USA

Damon Root | 12.28.2010 11:00 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Commercial Appeal

Peter Suderman | 12.28.2010 10:59 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Civic Art Theft

Michael Moynihan | 12.28.2010 10:34 AM

Culture

Freedom to Fail

Jonathan Franzen ponders the glories and limits of American freedom.

Peter Suderman | 12.27.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

True Grit

The Coen brothers score, Jeff Bridges shines, and a star is born.

Kurt Loder | 12.22.2010 10:30 AM

Culture

TRON: Legacy

Jeff Bridges goes back to the Grid

Kurt Loder | 12.16.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

The Tourist

Johnny Depp and Angelina Jolie on a road to nowhere

Kurt Loder | 12.10.2010 1:30 PM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Boardwalk Empire

Radley Balko | 12.3.2010 11:30 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: A Chorus of Praise for Silent Cal

Katherine Mangu-Ward | 12.3.2010 11:29 AM

Culture

Briefly Noted: Gratuitous Government

Jacob Sullum | 12.3.2010 11:29 AM

Culture

Black Swan

Natalie Portman shines yet again in Darren Aronofsky's dance-world shocker.

Kurt Loder | 12.2.2010 6:00 PM

Culture

The King's Speech

Colin Firth finds a new voice as King George VI

Kurt Loder | 11.26.2010 12:00 PM

Culture

The Singing Divas of Burlesque

Christina Aguilera and Cher anchor this old-school Hollywood musical

Kurt Loder | 11.24.2010 3:00 PM

Culture

Lost in the Dark

Magic mismanaged in Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Kurt Loder | 11.18.2010 6:00 PM

Politics

Heeding the Sage of Baltimore

A new edition of H.L. Mencken's Prejudices captures the legendary journalist at his corrosive best.

Damon Root | 11.18.2010 10:30 AM

Policy

Some Really Inconvenient Truths

Bjørn Lomborg fights the forces of climate hysteria in the new documentary Cool It.

Kurt Loder | 11.11.2010 6:00 PM

Politics

Hooked

Anatomy of a takedown in Client 9: The Rise and Fall of Eliot Spitzer.

Kurt Loder | 11.4.2010 6:00 PM

Civil Liberties

Corpses, Crimes, and Comic Books

Old Testament justice in the horror comics of the '50s

Greg Beato | 10.29.2010 7:00 AM

Culture

Killer Queen

Lisbeth Salander wraps things up in The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest.

Kurt Loder | 10.28.2010 4:30 PM

Economics

The Original Mad Man

Advertising genius Albert Lasker transformed America.

Greg Beato | 10.22.2010 10:30 AM

Culture

Bring the Pain

Wrong done right in Jackass 3D

Kurt Loder | 10.14.2010 6:00 PM

Culture

Antisocial

The Social Network illuminates the dawn of our online-all-the-time world.

Kurt Loder | 9.30.2010 4:30 PM

Culture

The Men Who Sold the Moon

Advertising the early space race

Brian Doherty | 9.15.2010 6:00 PM