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Tuesday, November 6 2007

The Unit

The Unit is not about deserving. It's about the veneer of moral order.


Tuesday, May 8 2007

The Unit

The Unit doesn't include you in the parameters of the performance. You have to figure yourself who's lying to whom and when it matters.


Tuesday, April 10 2007

The Unit

This is what The Unit gets right: while the men's violence can fix any given crisis, domestic effects are perpetual.


Tuesday, October 3 2006

The Unit

This is always the question in The Unit and the Unit: who knows? Even those who do know can't admit it.


Thursday, March 9 2006

The Unit

It's a show about the Army's clandestine counter-terrorist unit, called The Unit and created by David Mamet. What more do you need to know?


Monday, December 8 2003

Line of Fire

Line of Fire trots out an entire season's worth of supporting cast in its initial 60 minutes, each with his or her own thumbnail typology.


Sunday, January 1 1995

Piñero (2001)

The first scene in Leon Ichaso's biographical film, 'Piñero', sets up a complex series of relationships between the artist and his demons -- or more pointedly, between the artist and the various audiences he sought to influence and astonish.


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