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The lower depths
The images from the London bombings awakened an elemental fear that we all do our best to keep buried.
By David Thomson Jul 12, 2005
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.
By Laura Miller Dec 16, 2002
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.
By David Thomson Nov 7, 2002
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.
By David Thomson Oct 24, 2002
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.
By David Thomson Oct 17, 2002
Isabelle in the bath
The personal sexuality of actors and stars may be the only mystery they are actually allowed.
By David Thomson Oct 10, 2002
Our private places
Reflections on Isabelle Huppert's sadomasochistic mysteries in "The Piano Teacher."
By David Thomson Oct 3, 2002
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.
By David Thomson Sep 26, 2002
Stella!
Kim Hunter played a key role in molding "A Streetcar Named Desire" into a more heterosexual drama than its author intended.
By David Thomson Sep 19, 2002
"Morvern Callar"
Samantha Morton comes to life in a deeply introspective film suffused with intimate naturalism. Plus she lounges around in her underwear.
By David Thomson Sep 12, 2002
The troubles we've seen
9/11 thoughts from Mark Crispin Miller, David Thomson, Richard Stallman and more.
By Salon staff Sep 11, 2002
Clean-shaven carnality
Salma Hayek's Frida Kahlo is ravenously sexual -- but where's her mustache?
By David Thomson Sep 5, 2002
The all-American pervert
Even as he sank into a fatal sexual morass, Bob Crane remained a blandly wholesome nice guy.
By David Thomson Aug 29, 2002
The erotics of reading
Nicole Kidman playing Virginia Woolf is far more possessed, and thus far sexier, than Gwyneth Paltrow in "Possession."
By David Thomson Aug 22, 2002
Keen on Keener
You know Catherine Keener is trouble. But you can't stop yourself.
By David Thomson Aug 8, 2002
In the end, we're all naked
Thoughts on my sister-in-law's suicide.
By David Thomson Aug 1, 2002
Freudian flesh
Go to London and look at Lucian's paintings of nudes, which still contain the possibility of love.
By David Thomson Jul 25, 2002
Jennifer, wasted
What's Jennifer Jason Leigh doing in "The Road to Perdition" -- and why's she missing that despondent, carnal air of hers?
By David Thomson Jul 18, 2002
Future sex
Steven Spielberg has never done sexy well in his films, but "Minority Report" feels wet, alive and throbbing.
By David Thomson Jul 11, 2002
Indecent, improper and dangerous
"Blue Velvet" was and is an outrage. And a masterpiece.
By David Thomson Jun 6, 2002
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.
By David Thomson May 30, 2002
Nina lives
The last episode of "24" was made for Nina-ites, and for ecstatic, fulfilling perfidy.
By David Thomson May 23, 2002
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.
By David Thomson May 16, 2002
Turn-on
George Lucas is still a virgin, and he wants his audience in the same stricken state.
By David Thomson May 9, 2002
"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.
By David Thomson Apr 25, 2002
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