David Thomson

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  • A funny valentine

    Whenever I meet a woman who is beautiful but uneasy with it -- and there are a lot of them -- I get that strange Novak feeling.
  • It's in the eyes

    That which Dr. Lecter cannot eat, he must love.
  • Verbal embraces

    Marriage, or partnership, depends on how urgently and wittily people continue to talk to each other.
  • Sexual politics

    It was there in every sneaky grin -- the thought of pleasure.
  • Whom to marry?

    Lily Bart in "The House of Mirth" is like any modern woman -- faced with terrible choices about love.
  • The castaway

    Will Tom Hanks ever get off the feel-good island of superstardom?
  • In forsaken country

    The erotic enlargement was startling, a vision of otherness that I could never truly understand.
  • Right in all the wrong ways

    Catherine Deneuve is a sinister force who touches herself -- and us -- erotically in "Mississippi Mermaid."
  • An immodest proposal

    We should let our children know that falling in love is the most turbulent penetration of all.
  • Angela's kisses

    Lansbury is 75, but she still has that sensual Pekingese mouth.
  • The look of love

    In "Vertigo" we fall for Kim Novak at the same time James Stewart does.
  • Lovely Rita

    The great 1946 film "Gilda" is exciting, sexually ambiguous and still disturbing after all these years.
  • Dreams' window

    Sometimes surreal, disjointed images in a dark movie theater are the most revealing ones of all.
  • Just one touch

    If Al would put his hand on Bill, the whole country might be turned on.
  • Body language

    Whether talking in bed or in a debate, the sentenceless speaker might be the turn-on.
  • Written on the body

    "Pay It Forward" is emotionally manipulative, but the stars save the film with the acting -- especially in their love scene.
  • They might be giants

    Have you ever looked, I mean really looked, at Bobby Estalella?
  • Svetlana!

    I can imagine Albert Einstein giving up the crucial equation for the chance to stroke her razorback shin.
  • Trailers

    Our ever-hopeful filmgoer suggests what might turn us on this fall and winter, and what might make politicians mad. They could be the same things.
  • A hand in the dark

    My wife said, "Go and write it, there's a dear."
  • Gucci asks the hard questions

    The company's latest ad seems to be about the desert, America and where we are willing to go.
  • Getting together in "Liberty Heights"

    This film shows the wistfulness of young and integrated sexuality in the 1950s.
  • Heche gay? I don't feel it

    By David Thomson
  • Heche gay? I don't feel it

    The actress came out to us, but she may have been crossing her fingers behind her back.
  • Comeback kid

    Clinton's last shot was a sexy, cinematic one.
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