David Thomson

  • The lower depths

    The images from the London bombings awakened an elemental fear that we all do our best to keep buried.
  • Reel lives

    Film critic David Thomson talks about his masterly survey of movie people -- who's in, who's out and just what makes a star different from the rest of us.
  • A fine touch

    Veteran film editor Margaret Booth cut up the dreams and hopes of all the tough-guy directors and reassembled them the way she liked.
  • Sublime depravity

    James Toback's cult classic "Fingers" is like the screen treatment of a comic book written and illustrated by the Freud boys -- Sigmund and Lucian.
  • All about Nina

    She's the hottest woman still alive on "24" and I hope they use her as the sultry center of the second season.
  • Isabelle in the bath

    The personal sexuality of actors and stars may be the only mystery they are actually allowed.
  • Our private places

    Reflections on Isabelle Huppert's sadomasochistic mysteries in "The Piano Teacher."
  • Smart blonde

    Goldie Hawn is a hot woman of a certain age who dares to possess a sex life, romantic feelings and an awareness of power and money.
  • Stella!

    Kim Hunter played a key role in molding "A Streetcar Named Desire" into a more heterosexual drama than its author intended.
  • "Morvern Callar"

    Samantha Morton comes to life in a deeply introspective film suffused with intimate naturalism. Plus she lounges around in her underwear.
  • The troubles we've seen

    9/11 thoughts from Mark Crispin Miller, David Thomson, Richard Stallman and more.
  • Clean-shaven carnality

    Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo is ravenously sexual -- but where's her mustache?
  • The all-American pervert

    Even as he sank into a fatal sexual morass, Bob Crane remained a blandly wholesome nice guy.
  • The erotics of reading

    Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf is far more possessed, and thus far sexier, than Gwyneth Paltrow in "Possession."
  • Keen on Keener

    You know Catherine Keener is trouble. But you can't stop yourself.
  • In the end, we're all naked

    Thoughts on my sister-in-law's suicide.
  • Freudian flesh

    Go to London and look at Lucian's paintings of nudes, which still contain the possibility of love.
  • Jennifer, wasted

    What's Jennifer Jason Leigh doing in "The Road to Perdition" -- and why's she missing that despondent, carnal air of hers?
  • Future sex

    Steven Spielberg has never done sexy well in his films, but "Minority Report" feels wet, alive and throbbing.
  • Indecent, improper and dangerous

    "Blue Velvet" was and is an outrage. And a masterpiece.
  • In praise of "soccer"

    It's time for America to discover the knees, thighs and invention of the men who play the most erotic game in the world.
  • Nina lives

    The last episode of "24" was made for Nina-ites, and for ecstatic, fulfilling perfidy.
  • Unbelievable

    In "Unfaithful," Diane Lane's character was simply not unhappy or desperate enough to betray her marriage by having sudden sex with another man.
  • Turn-on

    George Lucas is still a virgin, and he wants his audience in the same stricken state.
  • "Sexy Beast"

    What makes the movie so good, and so English, finally, is the ambivalence of Don Logan -- for this monster, this demon, this beast is also the life force.
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