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In George Romero's latest zombie picnic, Diary of the Dead, ghouls feast on the Facebook generation

By Nathan Lee
Feb 14, 2008

Fleet-footed corpses are, from a physiological point of view, complete bullshit. "If you run that fast, your ankles will snap off," says Jason Creed (Josh Close) to fellow film student Ridley (Philip Riccio), the gauze-wrapped lead of his no-budget mummy opus The Death of Death. Pausing to regroup, cast and...
Untraceable: Big, dumb, and not much fun

By Nathan Lee
Jan 24, 2008

Regarding the irrelevance of Untraceable: First, torture is so 2007, and just because this drab little thriller with a flashy love of pain imagines itself a "critique of violence" doesn't make it any less superfluous. Second of all, untraceable? Ha! You wish. While it's true that the villain of our...
Heath Ledger's untimely death, and that milestone performance

By Nathan Lee
Jan 24, 2008

What I want to say about the death of Heath Ledger is . . . nothing. No speculation on why he committed suicide, if he committed suicide. No comment on the chronology, the circumstances, the known facts or lurid details of his passing. No outrage at the ghoulish gathering outside...
Final Cut

The very, very best of 2007

By Scott Foundas, J. Hoberman, Nathan Lee, Jim Ridley, Ella Taylor and Robert Wilonsky
Jan 3, 2008

It's that time of year again. Our six critics don't always (or often) agree, but we've combined their top 10 lists (allowing for ties) to pretend that they do! So without further ado, the 10 (or 15) best movies of the year, kind of: 1. There Will Be Blood The...
Working-Class Heroes — and Zeros

Loving re-creation of Thatcher-era England lacks perspective

By Nathan Lee
Oct 18, 2007

Scene by scene, This Is England gets the job done. Drawing on memories of a specific place and time — England in the early '80s — writer-director Shane Meadows sketches with a keen eye for detail and the contours of experience. He nails the look and feel of a shabby...

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