Let Me In (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

Chloë Grace Moretz in “Let Me In.”
Lonely Boy Finds Friend in Blood-Craving Pixie
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: September 30, 2010

The title of “Let Me In” might be understood as a plea to the audience. Even if you think you’ve had enough of the vampirization of popular culture — “Twilight,” “True Blood,” “The Vampire Diaries” and so on — find room in your heart for this one. And though it teases out the usual horror movie sensations of dread and anxiety and eyes-averted disgust, this movie also makes a direct and disarming play for affection, eliciting in viewers something akin to the awkward, resilient tenderness that is its subject. More

The Social Network (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

Jesse Eisenberg in “The Social Network.”
Millions of Friends, but Not Very Popular
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: September 23, 2010

What makes Mark Zuckerberg run? In “The Social Network,” David Fincher’s fleet, weirdly funny, exhilarating, alarming and fictionalized look at the man behind the social-media phenomenon Facebook — 500 million active users, oops, friends, and counting — Mark runs and he runs, sometimes in flip-flops and a hoodie, across Harvard Yard and straight at his first billion. Quick as a rabbit, sly as a fox, he is the geek who would be king or just Bill Gates. He’s also the smartest guy in the room, and don’t you forget it. More

Release

Tribulations of a Gay Priest
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: September 30, 2010

A bleak prison drama from the English team of Darren Flaxstone and Christian Martin, “Release” recounts the tribulations of a gay priest who has been incarcerated for what we are primed to believe is pedophilia. More

Is It Just Me?

A Romance of Mistaken Identity
By ANDY WEBSTER
Published: September 30, 2010

Somewhere, there’s a sparkling gay romance waiting to conquer the mainstream. Alas, “Is It Just Me?,” for all its good intentions, isn’t it. Though the film, competently acted and shot on bare financial means, laudably upends perceptions of the gay dating scene, disdaining nightclub hedonism for committed relationships, it fails to ignite. More

How to Keep a Scholarship!

Ex-Dean Accused of Using Students as Servants
By C. J. HUGHES
Published: September 30, 2010

A former administrator at St. John’s University accused of embezzling about $1 million from the college in Queens has now been charged with far more lurid crimes: forcing students to clean, cook and act as her personal servants to keep their scholarships. More

Cyberbullying and a Student's Suicide

Links to Pontifications
A Webcam in a Dorm Room, and a Life Cut Short - Two Letters

Taking On China

By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 30, 2010

Serious people were appalled by Wednesday’s vote in the House of Representatives, where a huge bipartisan majority approved legislation, sponsored by Representative Sander Levin, that would potentially pave the way for sanctions against China over its currency policy. As a substantive matter, the bill was very mild; nonetheless, there were dire warnings of trade war and global economic disruption. Better, said respectable opinion, to pursue quiet diplomacy. More

A Million Here, A Million There...

October 1, 2010, 3:05 AM
News Corp. Donates $1 Million to Anti-Democrat Group
By JIM RUTENBERG

The News Corporation, whose holdings include The Wall Street Journal and the Fox News Channel, has donated $1 million to the United States Chamber of Commerce, the business advocacy group that is among the heaviest anti-Democratic advertisers in this year’s elections. More

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