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In John Baker’s thought-provoking, elegant new novel, “Winged With Death,” the past leads the present in an unstoppable tango.
The past is 1970s-80s Montevideo, Uruguay, where the military dictatorship is burying people alive, and a milonguero, a master of the tango, dances in cellar salons. The present is present-day York, England, where the dancer [...]

Here we are folks, the last call for Newcritics Wednesday Night at the Movies. This post in no way goes into everything that can be said about Serpico and 25th Hour–it’s more like quick thematic notes, the whole truncated by some domestic goings-on chez Campaspe. But the Siren will be at Newcritics at 9 pm [...]

The Wednesday Night at the Movies Open Thread at Newcritics starts at 9 pm Eastern time. Saunter over and join the party.

So when the Siren posted her list previously, it was pretty safe. Some people may dislike The Apartment, but nobody is going to jump up and down and scream about its inclusion.
With Susan Seidelman’s [...]

It’s been a week of certifiable madness.
Stock market insanity; bank and company failures on an epic scale; the dollar amount of 700 billion said with a straight face.
And now the maddening reality of the loss of Paul Newman, who embodied the sea change of generational sensibility that is rocking Don Draper’s world.
The gang at Sterling [...]

Welcome to another edition of Wednesday Night at the Movies. Sorry about the mess. I’ve been sick in bed all day with a cold, an how appropriate is that, irony-wise? At any rate, I haven’t had time to clean the apartment and get things ready for company. Let’s just get this [...]

Tonight marks Round 2 of Wednesday Night at the Movies here at Newcritics. This week’s selection: Sweet Smell of Success. Join us here at 9 pm Eastern time for the open thread and let’s talk about this cookie full of arsenic, which for many is the movie about New York City.

At the time the Siren [...]

Ok, get your hands up and don’t turn around. It’s Wednesday Night at the Movies again here at newcritics. Empty your pockets of comments and nobody’ll get hurt.
Few thoughts to mull over while we wait to get started. First, here’s part of a post I wrote way back in April when I [...]