About
	Contact Us
	Articles
	Topic Index
	Reports
	Quotes
	On the Web
	Links
	TW Tracker
	Support

Stephen Holden

• September 23 -- Holden on to Left-Wing Dreams
Movie critic Stephen Holden again lauds a left-wing documentary: "They believe in a Marxist-leaning society whose workers put aside personal ambition for the greater good. They see globalization as the newest way that strong countries bully and prey on the weak while purporting to do good."

• August 31 -- Selling Anti-Republican Art in Manhattan
More anti-Bush art projects: Critic Stephen Holden admires radical novelist E.L. Doctorow, while David Carr celebrates Bush-hating comedian Margaret Cho.

• August 27 -- Movie Critic's Urban Liberal Smugfest
Stephen Holden files two favorable, angry, indignant reviews of anti-Bush documentaries, one of which mocks pro-war Middle Americans: "Asked to express their opinions about the war in Iraq, the mostly unidentified subjects of this documentary polemic, 'This Ain't No Heartland,' are only too happy to make fools of themselves. Their fundamental ignorance of the facts, compounded by their disinterest in knowing more, doesn't prevent them from expressing strong opinions and conveying misinformation in bad grammar."

• July 15 -- Speaking Frankly, Opposing Gay Marriage = Homophobia
Movie critic Stephen Holden reviews a highly favorable documentary of openly gay liberal, and arch-Clinton defender, Rep. Barney Frank: "When anti-Clinton forces could offer nothing more than unprovable charges of Mr. Clinton's misconduct, they were forced to concentrate on perjury and the definition of sex." Then Holden takes on "homophobic" conservatives.

• June 11 -- Abu Ghraib, at the Movies
There's no Abu Ghraib movie out yet, but movie critic Steven Holden wastes no time bringing it up: "Arriving right on the heels of the Abu Ghraib scandal, the Human Rights Watch International Film Festival has a new, uncomfortable resonance for those who habitually regard the United States as remaining above the moral fray."

• April 1 -- Pro-Palestinian Movie Leaves Reviewer "Infuriated"
Stephen Holden reviews an Israeli documentary focusing on the plight of Palestinians that leaves him "infuriated and mystified" at Israeli actions.

• December 12 -- "Conservative Catholic Complicity with Nazism"
A movie review from Stephen Holden includes this bit of anti-Catholicism: "Instead of seriously addressing the issue of the conservative Catholic complicity with Nazism...."

• December 11 -- Everything's Free Under Communism
Stephen Holden's review of a documentary about the politics of electricity in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia calls the republic a former "constituent of the Soviet Union" and that under Communism power was "free."

• October 13 -- More "Parallels" Between Vietnam and Iraq
When the Times reviews a Vietnam documentary, alert readers look for comparisons of Vietnam to Iraq--and critic Stephen Holden doesn't disappoint.