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Movie edition:

Christopher Kelly says that the film of adaptation of Cormac McCarthy's The Road is "a movie so singularly unpleasant, so resolutely ill-conceived that it should bring Hollywood’s unlikely love affair with the iconic Texas author to an immediate end." . . . If you're an obsessive fan of Taxi Driver, New York City, or both, then this three-part series comparing frames from the movie with current-day street scenes is for you: Here, here, and here. (Via The Awl) . . . A review of A Serious Man, which I thought was better than the reviews it's been getting but still minor Coen. . . . A list of the 20 worst sequels to good movies ever made. It includes Babe: Pig in the City, which I remember liking, but it’s been a long time. In any case, it’s better than Back to the Future 2, which didn’t make the list. I haven’t seen the No. 1 selection, but it seems like a safe choice -- I remember my parents and sister going to see it in Texas; when they got back, I could hear them get out of the car in the garage, still laughing. . . . Terry Teachout re-posts his take on an anthology of film criticism. ("American Movie Critics will likely become the standard collection of its kind, for the most part rightly so.")