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The gloves come off on Heath Ledger.

By Vadim Rizov on 10/14/2009

Filed under: Odds

It had to happen eventually. The reverential haze surrounding the late Heath Ledger was bound to dispel. And it's David Thomson, critic, film historian and actor-crazed obsessive who once wrote a whole book about Nicole Kidman in which he gasped over her "gingery pubic hair," who's stepped up to bat first. Thomson takes actors and their iconography very seriously indeed (in quasi-Penthouse style if they're female), and -- on the occasion of the British release of "The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus," which features Ledger's last role -- he expresses some skepticism about how good the Australian actor actually was. Thomson... MORE »

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Cannes 2009: "Inglourious Basterds."

By Alison Willmore on 05/20/2009

Filed under: Reviews

Spoilers below. Quentin Tarantino's a great writer of dialogue, and no one's more convinced of the fact than Quentin Tarantino. The ratio of talk to action -- not gun fights or explosions, but just people doing stuff -- in "Inglourious Basterds" is, generously, nine to one. Again and again, characters sit down over drinks (whiskey, champagne, milk), and the stakes may be high, but the conversations are meandering and lengthy, and no matter how clever they may get, they end up defeated by their own pace and their writer's inability to let anything go. Even the opening scene, a confrontation... MORE »