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Product placement: The lives of 'The Sopranos'

An extended family moment: Blanca, Hector, AJ. Never send a business reporter to do a critic's job. I'm sometimes amused by the naïveté of my critical and academic colleagues when it comes to the business realities of how movies are…

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Critics: Irrelevant, or just... right?

X-Men: Flameout. Dave Kehr asks: Now that “The Da Vinci Code��? has fallen another 40 percent (according to today’s New York Times), can we expect all of those trade papers that ran “Film Critics Proved Irrelevant��? stories to come back…