KCRW's Film Reviews

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KCRW's Film Reviews

Pulitzer Prize-winning critic of The Wall Street Journal Joe Morgenstern reviews films weekly in the paper and on KCRW; he airs his current musings on the film industry in a biweekly column for the paper as well. Joe has worked for The New York Times the New York Herald Tribune and the Los Angeles Herald Examiner and his freelance writing has appeared in The New Yorker The New York Times Magazine the Los Angeles Times Magazine Playboy GQ and the Columbia Journalism Review. He has also written for television; his scripts include 'The Boy in the Plastic Bubble' and several episodes of 'Law & Order.' Joe is a founding member of the National Society of Film Critics and a member of the New York Film Critics Circle.

Category: Arts
Last Update: 2009-11-20
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Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans; Red Cliff

This year's prize for clumsiest title goes to Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call New Orleans. I wanted to get that out of the way so I could talk about a defining moment in the movie, set in post-Katrina New Orleans -- it's when Nicholas Cage's rogue cop pulls up to a seedy building to make an arrest...

Red Cliff, set in China in the twilight of the Han Dynasty, lends new meaning to the notion of Baby on Board when a fearless swordsman plunges into battle with an infant strap...

play download Published: 2009-11-20
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