Reviews

Village Voice 'bloodbath' sends restaurant critic Robert Sietsema packing

2013-05-17 14:39:00

Particularly hard-hitting employee cuts at the Village Voice on Friday included longtime restaurant critic Robert Sietsema, who had been at the New York alt weekly newspaper for 20 years. Gossip columnist Michael Musto and theater critic Michael...

Accepting this 'Great Gatsby' on its own terms

2013-05-14 06:00:00

To judge by some of the reviews of the new film adaptation of "The Great Gatsby," you'd think Australian director Baz Luhrmann would be facing extradition for his crime against an American classic. But I have a message for all those self-appointed...

'Girls Gone Wild' founder guilty of assaulting women, faces jail

2013-05-07 08:39:00

L.A.'s city attorney praised the courage of the victim after a jury Monday convicted "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis of nearly half a dozen misdemeanor counts in connection with assaults on three women. Francis, 40, was found guilty after a two-...

'Girls Gone Wild' creator guilty of false imprisonment, assault

2013-05-06 19:58:00

"Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis faces up to five years in Los Angeles County jail after a jury convicted him Monday of nearly half a dozen misdemeanor counts in connection with assaults on three women. Francis, 40, was found guilty after a two-...

Bette Midler in 'I'll Eat You Last': What did the critics think?

2013-04-25 07:30:00

Recalling an age of highly crafted public personas, the new Broadway play “I’ll Eat You Last: A Chat with Sue Mengers” reflects on a Hollywood era when movie deals were made over dinner parties instead of smartphones. Bette Midler...

Remembrance: Roger Ebert, film's hero to the end

2013-04-04 16:20:00

This post has been corrected. See below for details. It seems like only yesterday — in fact, it was only yesterday — that I read that Roger Ebert was taking what he called, with typical verbal skill, "a leave of presence" to fight the cancer...

Roger Ebert dies at 70; Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic

2013-04-04 17:46:00

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial "thumbs-up, thumbs-down" assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers to...

Roger Ebert: First citizen critic and father to us all

2013-04-05 10:30:00

It was fitting that Roger Ebert's death caused Twitter to explode Thursday with film and TV critics, cultural recappers and entertainment bloggers sending their best wishes across the coded universe to mark, and perhaps aid, the passing of the iconic film...

Film critic Roger Ebert dies at 70

2013-04-04 12:59:00

Roger Ebert, the Pulitzer Prize-winning movie critic whose gladiatorial “thumbs up, thumbs down” assessments turned film reviewing into a television sport and whose passion for independent film helped introduce a new generation of filmmakers...

Five unexpected ways Roger Ebert changed film journalism

2013-04-05 05:00:00

It's hard to sum up one man's achievements in any article or post. It's even harder if that man is Roger Ebert, who in no particular order was critic, TV personality, social-media guru, blogger, scholar, screenwriter and advocate. Still, there are...

Roger Ebert career highlights, on page and screen

2013-04-04 16:30:00

Roger Ebert's passing Thursday at age 70 leaves behind a staggering body of work: He reviewed as many as 285 movies a year, spent decades as a fixture on TV and published 17 books. Following are but a few highlights from his prolific career. Ebert began...

'Hands on a Hardbody' on Broadway: What did the critics think?

2013-03-22 07:21:00

“Hands on a Hardbody,” a musical about cash-strapped Texans competing for a shiny new pickup truck, pulled into Broadway on�Thursday at the Brooks Atkinson Theatre in Manhattan. Based on a 1997 documentary of the same name, the show sets...

Pauline Friedman Phillips, author of "Dear Abby," in her home office in 1998.

2013-01-17 14:09:37

"Dear Abby" writer Pauline Friedman Phillips, left, and her twin sister, Eppie Lederer -- known professionally as Ann Landers -- attend their 50th high school reunion in Sioux City, Iowa.

2013-01-17 10:51:35

The book: "A story to make you believe in the soul-sustaining power of fiction and its human creators, and in the original power of storytellers like Martel." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review. It won the Man Booker Prize.

2012-11-19 10:07:03