Paranormal Activity 4
A surprisingly creepy and effective new addition to the horror series.
Staff Reviews
Seven Psychopaths and Sinister
A dose of bloody comic violence and a genuinely creepy horror flick.
Atlas Shrugged Part II: Election Edition
Ayn Rand's timeless classic is filmed as a Tea Party fable.
Power in a Same-Sex Union
How the fight for gay marriage transformed the gay rights movement.
Half of the Facts You Know Are Probably Wrong
A review of The Half-Life of Facts: Why Everything We Know Has an Expiration Date by Samuel Arbesman.
San Francisco's Darkest Hours
The founder of Salon takes a fascinating tour of the Golden Gate City, 1967-82.
Won't Back Down
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Viola Davis team up in Hollywood's latest implausible school reform flick
Last Resort: Sailing into America's Post-Post-9/11 World
New series explores our current cultural dichotomy of defiance and authoritarianism.
The Perks of Being a Wallflower
A movie that makes teenage isolation and high-school torment seem like fresh subjects again
The Master
Philip Seymour Hoffman and Joaquin Phoenix are great in a movie that's not about Scientology.
The New Normal: It's Okay to Be Cliché
Why does a TV show about gay parenting feel so dated?
Bachelorette and The Words
Kirsten Dunst out of her element, Bradley Cooper lost in a bad book.
Americans Too Dumb to Vote, Says Time National Correspondent
A 500 page defense of the stimulus fails to make the case that Obama is just misunderstood.
Debt and Loving It
David Wessel's Red Ink is a handy but revealing guide to the federal budget.
Side by Side
Does the rise of digital movies mean the death of film? Keanu Reeves investigates.
Slowly Rebuilding New Orleans
Seven years after Hurricane Katrina, the reconstruction effort doesn't fit a simple liberal or conservative narrative.
D'Souza "Fact Check" Light on Facts
AP treats opinions as facts, then says the opinions are wrong.
Someone's Watching
If consumers are annoyed with a merchant's monitoring, they can buy elsewhere. With the intrusive state, there is nowhere to go.
Intelligence at Work
Neal Stephenson's new book explores science fiction, underseas cables, Hong Kong, and the art of storytelling.
Cosmopolis
David Cronenberg's delightfully strange riff on sex, technology, capitalism, and the quest for a good haircut.
Land Grabs in the Developing World
How powerful interests seize land from peasants, pastoralists, and others around the globe
Rachel Maddow Abbreviates History
An MSNBC host's book on foreign policy leaves out too much of the story of how this mess began.
Misreading the Tea Party
A new book misunderstands the libertarian-leaning portion of the Tea Party movement and exaggerates the importance of the movement's social conservatives.
The Demise of Social Science
Is rampant addiction to porn and video games really ruining a generation of men?
