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The Debt review

Aesthetically, The Debt hardly fails to satisfy. The urgent plot, convincing performances and sudden spurts of violence saturate it with an overwhelming amount of suspense that makes it far more exciting than most thrillers this year. Ideologically, though, it muddles the very message it seeks to unpack, trading moral value for entertainment value. And it’s that contradiction that keeps the film from creating the kind of vigor it longs for....  read more

A Farewell of Sorts: My 15 Best Lists of the Day

Like Conan O’Brien, today is my final day at my dream job. After six-and-a-half years as associate editor at _Paste_, I’ve finally decided that it’s time to move on...  read more

Seven Songs as Confusing as John Madden's Telestrated Instant-Replay Diagrams

Football legend John Madden, finally, at age 73—after three decades as an NFL television analyst—announced his retirement from broadcasting yesterday.Sure, we admit that Madden is a charming and lovable—if mildly insane—Grandpa Bear, and that he knows a whole lot about the game to which he's devoted most of his life as a player, coach and commentator. But, really, did anyone ever understand what the hell he was getting at with all those little hastily scrawled telestrator arrows?Every year, at some point during one of the Thanksgiving-day NFL games, Madden would take a time out to diagram a turducken—which would've been...  read more