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• It Was 30 Rock Meets WKRP in Cincinnati The awkward charm of NBC's NewsRadio.
  Jessica Winter Dec. 23, 2008
  
• Buster Keaton's The General Yeah, it's silent. So what? You'll barely notice. It's that good.
  Gary Giddins Nov. 18, 2008
  
• Imagine Seeing John Wayne in IMAX That's sort of what watching How the West Was Won is like.
  Keith Phipps Nov. 11, 2008
  
• Red Dawn Its portrait of Russia is dated. Its portrait of America is timely—and terrifying.
  David Plotz Oct. 8, 2008
  
• Your DVD Player Sleeps With the Fishes The restored Godfather trilogy: the best reason yet to go Blu-ray.
  Fred Kaplan Sept. 30, 2008
  
• Mad Women Revisiting 9 to 5.
  Megan Hustad Sept. 23, 2008
  
• Walter Sobchak, Neocon The prescient politics of The Big Lebowski.
  David Haglund Sept. 11, 2008
  
• A Very Long Engagement The Netflix rentals Slate readers just can't bring themselves to watch.
  John Swansburg Sept. 5, 2008
  
• Land of No Return What Netflix rental have you kept unwatched the longest? A Slate reader poll.
  John Swansburg Aug. 28, 2008
  
• Jacques Tati's Trafic It just might make you love your car again.
  Nathan Heller Aug. 27, 2008
  
• Candid Camelot Robert Drew's documentaries captured the Kennedy mystique—and changed presidential politics forever.
  Elbert Ventura Aug. 5, 2008
  
• Mirandize This Was Dirty Harry a right-wing fantasy of swift justice—or a cautionary tale about vigilantism?
  Mark Harris June 30, 2008
  
• The Complete Carlin What you can learn from watching 800 minutes of George Carlin.
  Joshua David Mann June 26, 2008
  
• In Defense of Hulk Yes, the Ang Lee one.
  Erik Sofge June 17, 2008
  
• I Spy a Progressive Racial Fantasy … The original black-and-white buddy comedy, reconsidered.
  Troy Patterson June 5, 2008
  
• Smart as a Whip Can Indiana Jones teach kids about history?
  David Zax May 22, 2008
  
• Pop Culture Do boys today still have time for red balloons?
  David Haglund May 6, 2008
  
• Say It Ain't So, Jose The remarkable pertinence of two pre-steroid-era classics: Bull Durham and Eight Men Out.
  Matthew McGough April 22, 2008
  
• It's a New Box Set! How much would you pay for a four-disc collection of the best episodes of The Price Is Right?
  Keith Phipps April 15, 2008
  
• The Mayor of Hell James Cagney and the formative years of the American gangster movie.
  Mark Harris April 8, 2008
  
• Fugue Interstate Lost Highway—the O.J. Simpson story by way of Vertigo as imagined by David Lynch—finally comes to DVD.
  Dennis Lim April 1, 2008
  
• Would You Like a Hair Sandwich? The life and times of America's greatest hoaxer.
  Joe Keohane Feb. 26, 2008
  
• White Shoe, Black Hat Michael Clayton's devastating critique of the legal profession.
  Patrick Radden Keefe Feb. 19, 2008
  
• Guess Who's Coming To Solve Your Murder The enduring pleasures of In the Heat of the Night, a liberal message movie that worked.
  Mark Harris Feb. 5, 2008
  
• I Live in Fear What Kurosawa's forgotten film about the bomb captures about post-9/11 America.
  Fred Kaplan Jan. 29, 2008
  
• Zodiac File it under: serial killer flick/brief on behalf of a just, liberal society.
  Elbert Ventura Jan. 7, 2008