Politics

Zero stars for Zero Day

A good political thriller is more precious than jewels, the Good Book says. Or it should, anyway, given that bad ones, like the poor, will always be with us...

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How the Oscars lost its mojo

In the era of peak Oscars, the movies commemorated were, at worst, honorably decent and, at best, the sort of sumptuously mounted, inoffensively impressive...

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Gene Hackman, 1930-2025

Any movie star worth his salt should have a distinctive manner of speaking. Jimmy Stewart charmed with his stammer, Orson Welles impressed with his baritone...