Philip Seymour Hoffman utters one of the year's most refreshing lines in this terrific tale of political wheeling and dealing.
By Stephanie Zacharek Dec 21, 2007
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The legendary Texas congressman talks about his secret 1980s Afghan war (and its blowback), the Obama campaign and being better-looking than Tom Hanks.
By Andrew O'Hehir
April 22, 2008
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Julia Roberts and Jude Law star in Mike Nichols' coldblooded examination of modern mating.
By Stephanie Zacharek
December 3, 2004
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Mike Nichols' HBO production of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" brings the most glorious, most thrilling and most painful work of contemporary American theater into the living room.
By Laura Miller
December 6, 2003
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In his latest dissection of the gender gap, the director of the great "Carnal Knowledge" trades earnest sexual consideration for a cheap, vibrating sight gag.
By Virginia Vitzthum
March 21, 2000
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It's a sad day for cinema when a vibrating penis upstages a perfectly good actress.
By Stephanie Zacharek
March 3, 2000
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Raging tempests: Natural, cultural, political and cinematic.
By Camille Paglia
September 22, 1999
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Charles Taylor reviews 'Primary Colors,' directed by Mike Nichols and starring John
Travolta, Emma Thompson and Adrian Lester.
By Charles Taylor
March 20, 1998
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Salon Entertainment: Salon film
critic Charles Taylor chooses the best movies of 1997.
By Charles Taylor
December 24, 1997
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Dwight Garner writes about "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" for Salon's Personal Best Movies.
By Dwight Garner
March 21, 1997
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You may have been a randy, spiteful old drunk, but at least you didn't wind up like your lover-boy -- as the '60s generation's most embarrassingly Oedipal symbol.
By Robin Dougherty
March 21, 1997
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