• A time to mourn

    HBO's "Last Letters Home" delivers the emotional costs of the war, and it's almost too painful to watch. Watch it anyway.
    By Heather Havrilesky November 11, 2004

  • A harrowing, inspiring "Boy's Life"

    Filmmaker Rory Kennedy talks about the passion for social justice she shares with the father she never knew, and changing the world with her camera, one story at a time.
    By Rebecca Traister March 24, 2004

  • Is "The Sopranos" a chick show?

    Why an ultraviolent drama about a New Jersey mafioso paints a more nuanced portrait of women than anything you'll find on Lifetime.
    By Rebecca Traister March 6, 2004

  • Bill Maher

    In the American tradition of ridiculous compromise: Yes to gay marriage, no to gay mortgage! Or, thinking outside the box: Just let the hot chicks get married!
    March 5, 2004

  • "The Sopranos" hits its darkest note

    In the show's gripping new start, Tony, Carmela, Dr. Melfi and the gang, increasingly cut off from their illusions and their supposed loved ones, freefall through a hopeless world of divorce, betrayal, lust and rage.
    By Heather Havrilesky March 5, 2004

  • Lose the twang, y'all

    Enough with the Civil War complex: It's time for Southern Democrats to get enlightened about voting Bush out of office.
    By Bill Maher February 7, 2004

  • Instant "K Street" cred

    On the new Clooney-Soderbergh HBO series, Hollywood and Capitol Hill are in bed together, nervously prepping for their big love scene. Is this supposed to turn us on, or turn our stomachs?
    By Heather Havrilesky September 15, 2003

  • DVDs are for losers

    Good movies are like good sex -- and resale-happy Hollywood has long since gone frigid.
    By Bill Maher August 28, 2003

  • Beyond good and evil in Baltimore

    HBO's morally complex, richly textured series "The Wire" is not just the best thing on TV -- it's a Homeric epic of modern America.
    By Heather Havrilesky July 12, 2003

  • One more round of cosmos, girls

    For six years, they made expensive shoes, pretty cocktails and cheap sex look like basic essentials. Now it's last call for the women of "Sex and the City."
    By Heather Havrilesky June 21, 2003

  • The skeletons and suits in Sharpton's closet

    The controversial political leader and Democratic presidential candidate delivers a pointed warning: If you attack me, you risk being sued.
    By Jake Tapper June 20, 2003

  • The trouble with Carrie

    Sarah Jessica Parker has spoiled the delicate chemistry of "Sex and the City" by turning her once-flawed character into a boring uptown bombshell -- and by refusing to get naked.
    By Stephanie Zacharek June 20, 2003

  • One wedding and two funerals

    The third brilliant season of "Six Feet Under" comes to a messy close, resisting easy narrative "closure," as all the characters must face the weight of the decisions they've made.
    By Heather Havrilesky June 2, 2003

  • Dennis the menace

    In his latest HBO special, Dennis Miller blends high-speed highbrow chatter with juvenile macho aggression, like a grade-school bully wearing his Sunday best.
    By Heather Havrilesky April 14, 2003

  • Digging their way out

    Back from the dead, the characters on "Six Feet Under" are finally learning how to live, and the effect is more devastating than ever.
    By Heather Havrilesky March 3, 2003

  • Way beyond incorrect

    With boldly obnoxious late-night shows from Bill Maher and English comedian Sacha Baron Cohen (aka Ali G), HBO is poised to conquer the inebriated landscape of Friday night.
    By Heather Havrilesky February 22, 2003

  • Divorce Italian style

    No major characters got whacked in the season finale of "The Sopranos." The destruction was way bigger than that.
    By Carina Chocano December 10, 2002

  • A front-row seat at war

    HBO's "Live From Baghdad" is the story of one of live journalism's finest hours -- and a cautionary tale for an increasingly docile press.
    By Gary Kamiya December 7, 2002

  • Sympathy for the misanthrope

    It would be easy to feel sorry for "Curb Your Enthusiasm's" Larry David -- if only he wasn't so damn unlikable.
    By Carina Chocano September 17, 2002

  • Greetings from Desperation, N.J.

    Armed with devastating performances from Uma Thurman, Juliette Lewis and Gena Rowlands, director Mira Nair trains her sociologist's eye on the Garden State in HBO's "Hysterical Blindness."
    By Carina Chocano August 24, 2002

  • Meat market plunges to five-year low

    Shaken confidence, lower interest rates, slow recovery: A new season of "Sex and the City" explores the darker side of serial monogamy and finds it's a bear.
    By Carina Chocano July 25, 2002

  • Educational television

    If I watch "Sex and the City" with my teenage daughter we end up discussing important subjects like vibrators, blow jobs -- and the female point of view.
    By Stephanie Lehmann July 19, 2002

  • "What drugs have not destroyed, the war on them has"

    David Simon, creator of the searing new HBO series "The Wire," on why even the best cop shows are phony and our anti-drug mania amounts to a permanent war against the underclass.
    By Ian Rothkerch June 29, 2002

  • Sex, death and other family matters

    HBO's "Six Feet Under" ends its second season with a series of soap-opera devices -- but refuses to preach, lie or moralize about its most painful subject: Family life.
    By Laura Miller June 5, 2002

  • McNamara's "Moron Corps"

    HBO's "Path to War" leaves out some of the most shameful brainstorms of the Vietnam War's masterminds -- including a little-known recruitment program that turned the mentally and physically deficient into cannon fodder.
    By Myra MacPherson May 29, 2002
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