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20 By Rex Reed 9/06/11 9:38pm

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Contagion: A Viral Video that Often Looks Like a Public Health Announcement

It is often predicted that the world will no longer end with the whimper of a long, boring war, but with the scream of a fatal, incurable and fast-moving plague. Addressing that theme in time to scare the living daylights out of everybody, Contagion is a star-studded, apocalyptic wake-up call to the horrors that await mankind in a test tube. We’ve made so much progress in terms of immunology, technology, scientific research and medical miracles that the planet considers itself immune to everything from small pox to swine flu. But there’s still no cure for cancer or AIDS, and the canvas of new viruses gets broader every year. So the topicality in Contagion is dark and unquestionable, if not creepy and off-putting. Read More

By Christopher Rosen 6/24/10 2:23pm

Should Daniel Day-Lewis Star in Sherlock Holmes 2?

A funny thing about Sherlock Holmes, Guy Ritchie's completely forgettable-but-kinda-charming 2009 blockbuster: It had the most desperate set-up for a sequel ever. Seriously. The movie was over and then what felt like an eternity was spent on the evil professor Moriarty, who was shown only when surrounded by darkness and a nondescript English accent. The Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 6/09/10 3:17am

It’s Tony Time!

On a Tuesday night last summer-July 14, Bastille Day-I saw my first play as The Observer's new theater reviewer. It was Vanities, an awful Off Broadway musical at the Second Stage, and the evening was memorable only because it was also the night the Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, the trade groups Read More

2 By Rex Reed 12/22/09 1:11am

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle Must Be Turning Over in His Grave!

Sherlock HolmesRunning time 128 minutesWritten by Michael Robert Johnson, Anthony Peckham and Simon KinbergDirected by Guy RitchieStarring  Robert Downey Jr., Jude Law, Rachel McAdams

Sherlock Holmes is a James Bond movie with mutton chops. The last thing anybody needs is another cardboard set of Baker Street, or another weird take on Victorian England by a Read More

By Jesse Oxfeld 10/07/09 4:28am

Hamlet Saves Hamlet

The prince of Denmark may be melancholy, but the star of Hamlet is having the time of his life.

Jude Law headlines the Donmar Warehouse production that played to raves in London this summer, had a quick layover in Elsinore, Denmark—really!—for six performances at Kronberg Castle, and arrived at the Broadhurst last night.

Mr. Law sulks, broods, Read More

By Andrew Sarris 4/01/08 4:58pm

Norah Jones Is Sweet as Pie in My Blueberry Nights

MY BLUEBERRY NIGHTS Running Time 90 minutes Written by Wong Kar Wai and Lawrence Block Directed by Wong Kar Wai Starring Natalie Portman, Jude Law, David Strathairn, Rachel Weisz

Wong Kar Wai’s My Blueberry Nights, from a screenplay by Wong and Lawrence Block, from a story by Wong, marks Wong’s first English-language feature in Read More

By Rex Reed 9/25/06 12:00am

Even Sean Penn Can’t Save King’s

The best thing about last week’s Toronto International Film Festival was its reputation as a showcase for unveiling all of the big (and occasionally important) movies and performances you will see in the coming movie season. From Heath Ledger as a heroin addict in Candy, Julie Christie as a woman wasting away from Alzheimer’s in Read More

By Staff 8/21/06 12:00am

New York World

George and ... Hillary Hillary Clinton spent the second weekend of August in the Hamptons and left with a half-million bucks, $100 of which was mine. Nobody from the press, no photographers, were invited to the various fund-raisers. But duty called. First, I needed some appropriate shoes. At the Ralph Lauren store, I scored some Read More

By Staff 5/10/06 1:30am

My Wife’s Hairdresser Turns the Tables on George Clooney

When last I visited the subject, my wife had dismissed my criticisms of George Clooney's political movies, saying I was being mean-spirited. Then fate rallied to my cause. My wife went to the hairdresser and told him about her soft spot for Clooney—and he took my side, and changed her mind. You might say Read More