Posts by Zach Baron

September 20, 2012
Cinemetrics: The Trouble With Clint Eastwood

Tracking the decline of an American icon.
September 13, 2012
Cinemetrics: The Master

The strange, brilliant, sweeping career of Paul Thomas Anderson.
August 29, 2012
Summermetrics: Lawless and the End of Blockbuster Season

A good movie, a bad weekend, and what we learned from a summer of blowing stuff up.
August 16, 2012
Summermetrics: The Death of the Great American Shoot-’em-Up

The Expendables 2 and the sad state of the modern action movie.
August 8, 2012
Summermetrics: Bourne, Again

Can one of our great modern franchises survive the loss of Matt Damon?
August 6, 2012
Summermetrics: Hollywood Knows Dick

Total Recall, Phillip K. Dick, and the film industy’s recycling problem.
July 26, 2012
Summermetrics: Watching The Watch Men

Ben Stiller, aliens, and the intersection of onscreen comedy and real-life tragedy.
July 19, 2012
Summermetrics: The Dark Knight Fades to Black

The end of the biggest, best superhero franchise of all time — now with jokes!
July 11, 2012
Summermetrics vs. Oscarmetrics

Our movie experts look back at the summer so far, and ahead to the coming Oscar race.
July 3, 2012
Summermetrics: Spider-Man Again?

Why is Hollywood rebooting franchises so quickly? And why are we all lining up?