DAVID BIANCULLI

Founder / Editor

ERIC GOULD

Associate Editor

LINDA DONOVAN

Assistant Editor

Contributors

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2012
Jul
28
 
 
Two of our critics had wildly different reactions to the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony. Eric Gould, for example, called it a "spectacular tribute to British history," and asked what in the world was left out: perhaps only a song and dance tribute to the Great Plague? Or Monty Python?...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
20
 
 
Jerry Seinfeld is back on Thursday nights — sort of — in a new recurring web series Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
15
 
 
While Breaking Bad takes needed time to reset the storyline for its final collisions, it still delivers some of the best television of the year...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
10
 
 
According to the PBS POV documentary Guilty Pleasures, a romance novel is sold somewhere in the world every four seconds. For some, they can’t come off the press fast enough...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
8
 
 
Here's a documentary series that shows we don't need all the scripted chaos of a TV emergency room. There's plenty of it going on at an actual hospital near you...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jul
1
 
 
As cryptic as modern art can be, performance art can be the most challenging. And it can be the most moving. Both sides are revealed in one artist's work...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
26
 
 
Call it a tale of two men behaving badly. Both can be brash. But on one hand there is wit, ingenuity and depth. And on the other, there isn't...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
20
 
 
Elijah Wood returns in Wilfred, a guy with a dog who appears to him as a talking nihilist. Everyone else just sees a cute mutt...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
14
 
 
The Girls finale airs Sunday at 10:30 p.m. ET, on HBO and writer/director/star Lena Dunham swerves the bus sharply — and smartly — to set the series up for its next season...
 
 
 
  
 
 
2012
Jun
11
 
 
Throne, a smart, two-part detective thriller from Britain, follows an obsessed detective who's after a deranged killer, but manages to make the genre fresh...