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Michael Bay
January 20, 2016
PodcastTim Grierson, Will Leitch
Grierson & Leitch Episode 1: The Importance of Being Michael Bay
The premiere episode looks at the merits of “13 Hours” and the fallout from the Oscar nominations.
January 19, 2016
Alex Shephard
Which presidential candidates have seen Michael Bay’s new Benghazi movie 13 Hours?
January 14, 2016
Will Leitch
13 Hours: Team America at the Gates of Hell
Michael Bay doesn’t have much to say about Benghazi, but he does entertain with a brutal effectiveness.
April 8, 2013
David Thomson
Apocalypses Now
Hollywood action movies need to get over the end of the world
September 14, 2012
David Denby
Has Hollywood Murdered the Movies?
November 19, 2009
Christopher Orr
Just When You Thought It Was Safe to Go Back to the Multiplex
July 8, 2009
The New Republic
Transformers: Revenge Of The Viewing Public
June 26, 2009
Christopher Orr
The Movie Review: 'Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'

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