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John Wayne
April 16, 2021
Jo Livingstone
Raoul Peck’s Exterminate All the Brutes Insists on Telling What Really Happened
The documentarian returns with an urgent argument about imperial violence—and what it means for America now.
January 19, 2016
Jeet Heer
John Wayne would have loved Donald Trump since both men are racists.
March 16, 2013
Ben Schwartz
The Subversive St. Patrick’s Day Classic
How John Ford undermined McCarthyism with 'The Quiet Man'
March 11, 2013
David Thomson
What's Isabelle Huppert Doing in This Third-Rate Thriller?
'Dead Man Down' and the inanities of Hollywood casting
December 21, 2012
David Thomson
"Zero Dark Thirty" Has All the Depth of a John Wayne Movie
September 15, 2011
David Thomson
Thomson on Films: Cliff Robertson and the Sordid Ways of Old Hollywood
August 18, 2011
Eve Fairbanks
Giddy-Up!
June 30, 2011
Jonathan Chait
What The Bachmann Skeptics Get Wrong
February 17, 2011
Eliza Gray
An All-Out Assault on Immigration
December 24, 2010
David Thomson
David Thomson on Films: True Grit
Why you can watch the Coen Brothers’ new movie with your eyes closed
May 29, 2010
David Thomson
Dead, Man
May 15, 2006
Christopher Orr
The politics of "24."
April 18, 2006
Christopher Orr
No Man's Land
June 21, 1993
James Q. Wilson
Stagestruck
July 6, 1992
Sidney Blumenthal
The Mission
Ross Perot’s Vietnam syndrome.
August 4, 1979
Andrew Sarris
John Wayne’s Strange Legacy
A Revisionist View
July 22, 1978
Francis M. Nevins Jr.
Murder at Noon
December 1, 1962
John Wayne
The Great Burroughs Affair
A review of William S. Burroughs's 1962 cult novel "Naked Lunch"

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