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A Den of Slack: ‘Reality Bites’ As a Generational Cautionary Tale

A Den of Slack: ‘Reality Bites’ As a Generational Cautionary Tale

Reality Bites‘ central idea is that selling out is no match for following your heart, and good things will come. That’s all well and good, but it doesn’t pay the bills.

All Things Seen and Unsaid in Scorsese’s ‘The Age of Innocence’

All Things Seen and Unsaid in Scorsese’s ‘The Age of Innocence’

Scorsese's outlier drama of manners has aged well... mostly.

Winona Ryder Talks With PopMatters About the ‘Experimenter’

Winona Ryder Talks With PopMatters About the ‘Experimenter’

Winona Ryder speaks to PopMatters about Experimenter, aging in Hollywood, and why she's the only actress who doesn't want to direct.
The Banality of Evil in ‘Experimenter’

The Banality of Evil in ‘Experimenter’

Michael Almereyda’s knotty, intellectually playful film about Stanley Milgram’s chilling 1961 experiments asks why so many people seemed so unwilling to accept his conclusions.

‘The Iceman’ and His Cold, Cold Heart

Little Women: Brilliant Book, Flawed Film

A Shortage of Villainy

Summer of Same: May 2009

‘Informers’ Offers Less than Zero Insights

Part 5: Toy Story 2 to Titus (November – December 1999)

Heathers & Sex and Death 101

The Ten