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The Unknown Known Can't Penetrate the Man Behind the Iraq War

By Jonathan Kiefer
Apr 17, 2014

As its subtitle suggests, one reason Errol Morris's 2003 documentary The Fog of War: Eleven Lessons From the Life of Robert S. McNamara proved so resonant is that its subject was partly a proxy for his most notorious professional successor, the decidedly less available Donald Rumsfeld. "I don't do quagmires,"...
The Reluctant Fundamentalist: Post-911 Affronts and Doomed Romance

By Jonathan Kiefer
May 16, 2013

In the same way novels can be better and worse than journalism at processing history, so can movies be better and worse than novels: too unreal yet too specific. For the movie of Mohsin Hamid's novel, director Mira Nair mounts a sensitive retrospective procedural of radicalization: Here's how a bright...
As Luck Would Have It: Accessible but Forgettable

By Jonathan Kiefer
Feb 7, 2013

As Luck Would Have It Movie Review: Accessible but Forgettable
Hello I Must Be Going Movie Review

By Jonathan Kiefer
Oct 25, 2012

Hello I Must Be Going Movie Review
The Paperboy: Hot Messiness Has Its Charms

By Jonathan Kiefer
Oct 11, 2012

The Paperboy Movie Review: Zac Efron, Nicole Kidman, Hot Messiness Has Its Charms

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