China, Germany, GOP -- the Axis of Depression.

Hence the axis of depression. No doubt some of Mr. Bernanke’s critics are motivated by sincere intellectual conviction, but the core reason for the attack on the Fed is self-interest, pure and simple. China and Germany want America to stay uncompetitive; Republicans want the economy to stay weak as long as there’s a Democrat in the White House.

And if Mr. Bernanke gives in to their bullying, they may all get their wish. More

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 (2010) NYT Critics' Pick

A scene from “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows — Part 1,” directed by David Yates.
Time for Young Wizards to Put Away Childish Things
By A. O. SCOTT
Published: November 18, 2010

The midnight bookstore parties are all in the past, and, with the opening of the first half of the film adaptation of “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows,” an extraordinary pop-culture cycle is on the verge of completion. More

White Material - NYT Critics' Pick

Isabelle Huppert in “White Material.”
Hanging on for a Dear Way of Life
By MANOHLA DARGIS
Published: November 18, 2010

Early in Claire Denis’s powerful, agonized film “White Material,” you see a woman in a short pink dress, Maria — played by a sublime Isabelle Huppert — hanging off the back of a bus. The setting is a contemporary unnamed African country being torn to pieces by government troops, marauding rebels and the enduring ravages of European colonialism. As she holds on tight, her short-sleeved dress fluttering, the camera moves in close enough for you to see the muscles in Ms. Huppert’s thin arms popping, straining with the terrific effort that encapsulates the will to survive. More

Nothing Personal (2007) NYT Critics' Pick

Lotte Verbeek and Stephen Rea in “Nothing Personal.”
Tensions Between Companionship and Solitude
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: November 18, 2010

Willfully withholding and maddeningly enigmatic, “Nothing Personal” may be parsimonious with words, but its sights are almost embarrassingly effusive. Dwarfed but not diminished by the stupefying beauty of the film’s western Ireland location, the two leads act out a story as simple and ancient as the hills that surround them. More

An Odd-Couple Friendship

Pablo Pineda and Lola Duenas in “Me, Too.”
An Odd-Couple Friendship
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: November 18, 2010
Fiction films with disability as a central theme (especially those that feature disabled actors) are not only tricky to assemble but also minefields to critique. Praise can sound patronizing and criticism cruel, the disability casting a bulletproof cloak of political correctness around the entire project. More

Family Affair -- NYT Critics' Pick

Reconnecting the Dots of a Scattered Family
By JEANNETTE CATSOULIS
Published: November 18, 2010
This film is designated as a Critics' Pick

In America, where family values, talk therapy and on-camera confessions are equally popular, it’s no surprise that the dysfunctional-childhood documentary is something of a specialty. Yet even in a field becoming more crowded by the year, “Family Affair” emerges as one of its more complex and unsettling examples. More

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Duck number one seems different than this morning...

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