In the following negative review, Kauffmann criticizes both Poetic Justice and Rob Weiss's Amongst Friends.
Two new films raise questions that they don't directly address. Poetic Just...
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There is some poetic justice in the ascension of Joseph Mondello, the Nassau County leader to the Republican Party's state chairman.
Like the state party, critics have written off the Nassau Count...
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Osamu Ogawa assumed the chairmanship of the Saitama Bar
Association after winning the leadership election in February, during
which he stated his opposition to the citizen judge system to be ...
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This album takes me to a place where I haven't been in a while: R&B; and dance. I give that credit to Jermaine. I like to say he brought the country to the album, while he says he brought the g...
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Hip Hop music broke yet another barrier when Three 6 Mafia took home an Oscar for "Best Original Song". As ecstatic as Three 6 were, perhaps no one was more thrilled than Paul Stewart, a veteran fi...
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Arnold Schwarzenegger stormed into office during California's last budget crisis, promising to "end the crazy deficit spending" so the state would never go over the financial cliff again. But four ...
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On the very day General Motors announced that it would post a loss of $1 billion over the last six months, the price of crude oil hit a temporary all-time high of $56.60 a barrel on the New York Me...
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Every four years, the media try to offer the Republican electorate advice on what they should do to achieve victory. Buyer beware: Those eager to accept the media's conventional "wisdom" ought to r...
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As I write this column for Jacksonville's Florida Times-Union and Creators Syndicate, it is Thursday afternoon, Jan. 24. Our latest InsiderAdvantage survey of Florida, conducted with our partners a...
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Today's airy moon in Libra brings focus to those people and things that keep our lives in delicate balance. Pondering a well-placed art object is restful for the mind. So is as being in relaxed and...
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Critical Review by Stanley Kauffmann
The Rebirth of Mondello
