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She's having his baby: Matt McGorry and Dascha Polanco in "Orange Is the New Black."  (Photo by K.C. Bailey - © 2014 - Netflix)

'Orange Is the New Black' Season Two (second review)

When your choices don’t matter: The terror and appeal of 'Orange Is the New Black'

Orange Is the New Black portrays a world without an underlying order — a world where individuals’ choices don’t make much difference, and the characters struggle to survive anyway.
Alaina Johns

Alaina Johns

Articles 4 minute read
What will happen to Don Draper? (Photo by Michael Yarish/AMC)

2014-2015 television series finales

Parting is such sweet sorrow

Even the best TV show has to end eventually — the way it does so can make a difference to its legacy.

Paula Berman

Articles 5 minute read
Knocking 'em dead at the Carlyle. (© Courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival)

'Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me'

“She’s Still Here”: Remembering Elaine Stritch

Elaine Stritch died yesterday, leaving the words of her favorite song, “I’m Still Here,” ringing in our ears. For me, she’s the epitome of show-business glamour. She glowed with the radiance of a performer who loved what she did, and she lived life to the fullest, without apology. She had sass, she had style, and she made a lot of people happy along the way.

Carol Rocamora

Articles 4 minute read
Not an impenetrable art house flick: Chris Evans, Tilda Swinton, and Octavia Spencer in "Snowpiercer." (Photo © 2013 - RADiUS/TWC )

Bong Joon-ho's 'Snowpiercer'

An allegory with ax fights

Snowpiercer is worth seeing not just because of its indictment of widening global inequality, but because it seriously examines the alternatives.
Jake Blumgart

Jake Blumgart

Articles 3 minute read
Moran Atias and Adrien Brody in "Third Person." (Photo by Maria Marin - © 2014 - Sony Pictures Classics)

Paul Haggis's 'Third Person'

Third person, removed

Third Person underwhelms in its attempt to tie together three separate threads. Its downfall is the very detachment implied by its title.
Kayleigh Butera

Kayleigh Butera

Articles 3 minute read
A journalist who created his own reality.

Roger Ebert’s ‘Life Itself’

The secret of Roger Ebert’s success

Life Itself is a documentary about a remarkable man who spent his entire life in movie theaters yet somehow managed to develop more humane relationships with more real people than most of us who inhabit the real world.
Dan Rottenberg

Dan Rottenberg

Articles 3 minute read
Michael Fassbender and Javier Bardem in "The Counselor." (Photo by Kerry Brown - © 2013 - Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All Rights Reserved.)
Photo of the Solano Drive-In by Thomas Hawk, via Flickr/Creative Commons.

Drive-ins and the way we watch movies

Starry night

The drive-in experience is like tailgating before a sporting event, but for movie junkies.

Ryan Dellaquila

Articles 4 minute read
John Lloyd Young and Erich Bergen in "Jersey Boys." (Photo by Keith Bernstein - © 2013 Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc.)

Clint Eastwood's 'Jersey Boys'

Jersey Goodboys

Clint Eastwood's version of the popular stage musical about the Four Seasons is a tone-deaf mess.
Armen Pandola

Armen Pandola

Articles 6 minute read
A strange partnership: Eva Green and Timothy Dalton in "Penny Dreadful"

'Penny Dreadful' goes back to horror’s roots

Horror is the new black

Penny Dreadful features a rogue’s gallery of Victorian favorites, but this is no retread of League of Extraordinary Gentlemen.

Paula Berman

Articles 5 minute read