For Our Consideration

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  For Our Consideration Best films of 2012 so far: an annotated checklist (Part 2)

  The must-see films of the second half of 2012, from The Dark Knight Rises to Rust And Bone.

  December 13, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration 40 great songs in 40(ish) sentences

  40 tracks that made 2012 better.

  December 12, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration What does it mean to grow up with a band?

  Where 20-plus years listening to the same band can lead.

  December 11, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration A Tyler Perry academic conference applies highbrow criticism to a lowbrow empire

  A trip to Madea’s Big Scholarly Roundtable.

  December 10, 2012 | 1:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration The strange rehabilitation of Rage Against The Machine

  The band’s message has gotten skewed over the years, but the power of its debut album endures.

  December 7, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration What The Walking Dead Board Game reveals about the Walking Dead franchise

  The game manages to solve one of the major challenges of the comic-book series and TV show.

  December 5, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How Boss and its ilk illustrate TV’s problem with political drama

  When the needs of television overwhelm the need to get it right.

  November 29, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Thick As A Brick and the pleasures of the very, very, very long song

  When the music never ends but goes on, and on, and on.

  November 28, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How the live-action cartoon Suburgatory became one of TV’s best dramas

  The series’ emotional perceptiveness is second-to-none in the current television landscape.

  November 27, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Hitchcock and the pitfalls of the artist biopic

  What do you do when real life isn’t really interesting?

  November 26, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Was hardcore meant to grow old?

  Is it really just a matter of how old you feel?

  November 20, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Why it’s still important to take the “live” out of Saturday Night Live

  Louis C.K.’s “Lincoln” maintains the traditions established by “Lazy Sunday,” Mr. Bill, and John Belushi dancing through a graveyard.

  November 16, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration What makes live music “good,” onstage and on-record?

  Is it more important to sound exactly like the album, or create an experience?

  November 14, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration A concert box set captures Elvis Presley at the end of his comeback

  Two Madison Square Garden shows recorded in 1972 showcase one of the last times Elvis recaptured the old fire.

  November 13, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration Why Couples Therapy and Courtney Stodden epitomize the empty narcissism of reality TV

  This is what happens when people stop being real and start being reality stars.

  November 12, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration How Ballads Of The Green Berets and Have A Marijuana explain the '60s generation gap

  The culture-war, ’60s style.

  November 7, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Podcasters are basically begging for money, and that’s a good thing

  The economic realities of podcasting create a new, honest, more direct way for fans to support artists.

  November 6, 2012 | 9:30am -

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  For Our Consideration James Bond will outlive you (and that’s okay)

  It’s comforting to know there will always be a Bond movie going through the super-spy paces and reflecting its time.

  November 5, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration AOL Keyword “Doomed”: What the former Internet giant portends about the future of cable

  Why the decline of AOL should sound a warning to today’s cable and satellite companies

  November 2, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Is there life left in the music memoir?

  There are more musician autobiographies than ever, but are they saying anything compelling?

  November 1, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration How and where the Grindhouse spirit survives (and whether it should)

  Why authentic, ballsy trash may have more of a legitimate place in the market than the kitschy, retro imitators.

  October 31, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration When the TV stars of 1979 saved Halloween with a little kitsch

  Judd Hirsch dons Bela Lugosi’s cape, accent, and widow’s peak for The Halloween That Almost Wasn’t.

  October 30, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Is an indie television movement on the verge of breaking through?

  Scenes from the 2012 New York Television Festival.

  October 30, 2012 | 10:30am -

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  For Our Consideration Two massive new comedy box sets reveal the three joys of archive-plundering

  Mel Brooks, Ernie Kovacs, and the pleasures of overstuffed DVD compilations.

  October 23, 2012 | 11:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Why Syfy’s superhero series Alphas is TV’s best show about mental illness

  The science-fiction drama turns superpowers into metaphorical illnesses, and crime-solving into group therapy.

  October 22, 2012 | 10:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Googling Sugar Man: Is it possible to remain unknowable in the Internet age?

  How Rodriguez’s comeback illustrates the difficulty of maintaining mystery in the current day.

  October 18, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration A Wrinkle In Time, Scholastic, and why kids are the future of comics again

  Bam! Pow! Comics are for kids again?

  October 17, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Do documentaries need to be fair to both sides of an issue?

  Why one-sided issue docs undermine their own arguments and betray journalistic standards.

  October 10, 2012 | 12:00am -

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  For Our Consideration Dial M for 3-D: Hitchcock’s primer for depicting the third dimension

  What an almost 60-year-old movie can teach modern filmmakers about shooting in depth.

  October 9, 2012 | 12:00pm -

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  For Our Consideration What was the quintessential Charlie’s Angels undercover guise?

  Trucker? Moonshiner? Porn star?

  October 3, 2012 | 9:30am -