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• Go East, Young Man Two-Lane Blacktop was supposed to be the next Easy Rider. But it went in a different direction.
  Elbert Ventura Dec. 26, 2007
  
• "Now I Have a Machine Gun. Ho Ho Ho." Slate's guide to overlooked Christmas movies.
  Dec. 13, 2007
  
• The Lady Vanishes Hitchcock's first Hitchcock film.
  Nathaniel Rich Dec. 4, 2007
  
• Close Encounters of the Third Kind Nevermind those little alien guys—how about that suburban malaise!
  Keith Phipps Nov. 20, 2007
  
• Confessions of a Jericho Fan It's not good. It's not so-bad-it's-good. It's just plain mediocre. And yet I watch.
  Reihan Salam Oct. 30, 2007
  
• Not-So-Great Salt Lake Why have even the environmentalists given up on the Salton Sea?
  Rebecca Onion Oct. 16, 2007
  
• The Cineaste of Cool How Jim Jarmusch's hipness distracts from his greatness.
  Nathaniel Rich Oct. 9, 2007
  
• Greed Is Bad. Bad! Gordon Gekko was supposed to be a villain. Instead, he became a Wall Street folk hero.
  Jessica Winter Sept. 25, 2007
  
• Scent of a Man Al Pacino hunts a killer in New York City gay bars in Cruising.
  Trenton Straube Sept. 11, 2007
  
• A Second Look at Primary Colors What can it tell us about Hillary '08?
  Charles Taylor Sept. 4, 2007
  
• David Lynch Goes Digital Why Inland Empire is better on your TV than it was on the big screen.
  Dennis Lim Aug. 23, 2007
  
• Ham of the People How Al Pacino got typecast as Al Pacino.
  Jessica Winter Aug. 9, 2007
  
• Popeye the Everyman Rediscovering the weird, wonderful, working-class hero of the original Popeye cartoons. Plus: Why spinach.
  Keith Phipps Aug. 2, 2007
  
• Slouching Towards Hollywood The screenwriting of Joan Didion and John Gregory Dunne.
  David Haglund July 19, 2007
  
• Snob vs. Snob Don't let your memory fool you. Chevy Chase's Fletch is abominably bad.
  Reihan Salam May 25, 2007
  
• Twin Peaks Revisited The second season is not what it seems.
  Jessica Winter April 27, 2007
  
• Violent Disagreement What Cho Seung-Hui got wrong about Oldboy.
  Grady Hendrix April 20, 2007
  
• Hollywood Hemingway How the movies mangled great fiction.
  David Haglund April 13, 2007
  
• Meet the Hindustani Malcolm X Looking for pulse-pounding excitement in Richard Attenborough's Gandhi.
  Reihan Salam March 26, 2007
  
• Noir America Cynics, sluts, heists, and murder most foul.
  Stanley Crouch March 15, 2007
  
• Reagan's Favorite Sitcom How Family Ties spawned a conservative hero.
  David Haglund March 2, 2007
  
• The Slacker Movie's Quarterlife Crisis Mutual Appreciation and The Puffy Chair reveal a genre stuck in a rut.
  Marisa Meltzer Feb. 22, 2007
  
• Replaying Brando How DVD adds new depth to his greatness.
  Stanley Crouch Jan. 25, 2007
  
• Children of Idiocracy What Mike Judge's latest comedy has in common with Alfonso Cuarón's masterpiece.
  Dana Stevens Jan. 12, 2007