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Lindy West was born an unremarkable female baby in Seattle, Washington. She writes about movies, movie stars, exclamation points, lady stuff, large frightening fish, and much, much more. You may have seen her world-famous article “The Different Kinds of People That There Are” or witnessed her single-handedly putting a stop to the Sex and the City movie series (thank god). Lindy’s work has also appeared in GQ, the Daily Telegraph, the Guardian, the New York Daily News, Deadspin, and some other places she can't remember right now.

More Articles by Lindy West from 2006

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Date

  • Film

    Hot for Crack Addict

    Ryan Gosling Is a Walking, Talking Babe
    Posted on 09/07/2006
  • Film

    Dude Hates, Like, All Ladies

    Neil LaBute Bares His Woman-Fearin’ Soul—Again
    Posted on 08/31/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    It happens every year. A bland piece of consensus cinema is laid at the feet of critics
    Posted on 08/24/2006
  • Film

    On Screen This Week

    Accepted, less a movie than a stupid piece of shit, has thrown me into a mighty rage.


    Posted on 08/17/2006
  • Film

    Serpents on an Aeroplane

    It's Exactly What You'd Expect
    Posted on 08/17/2006
  • Theater

    Pretty Girls Make Graves

    Killer Karl Kramer the Kraut was a real person—a Canadian and privately gay professional wrestler in the 1970s who toured with a WWF-style road show on the back roads of Alberta.
    Posted on 08/17/2006
  • Film Column

    Film Shorts

    Bored with her dolls and backyard playhouse, a precocious six-year-old Iranian girl repeatedly tries to talk her harried mother into letting her play with the new kids next door. Also, a ball gets kicked over the fence. That's about it, really. Although it probably doesn't justify
    Posted on 08/03/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    A monster hit at Sundance, where it was picked up for a record-breaking $10.5 million, Little Miss Sunshine is brazen enough to truck in well-worn indie film trappings.
    Posted on 08/03/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    Art it assuredly wasn't, but Kevin Smith's 1994 debut, Clerks, displayed a hilariously filthy, endlessly quotable flair for the poetry of dead-end conversations. Anyone who had ever
    Posted on 07/20/2006
  • Theater

    Just Like Candy

    The Roethke is not just improvisational theater, but poetry-based improvisational theater. It sounds like a match made in hell, but the pairing—surprise, surprise—is a chocolate truffle
    Posted on 07/20/2006
  • Suggests

    'Strangers with Candy'

    Posted on 07/06/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    The first Pirates of the Caribbean film rose from the ashes of low expectations, dragged up from its dubious theme-park origins by a subversive and hilariously twisted performance by Johnny Depp as Captain Jack Sparrow.
    Posted on 07/06/2006
  • Theater

    Hating the Caveman

    Men Have Jobs, Women Have Vaginas
    Posted on 06/22/2006
  • Theater

    Sex in Seattle: Episode 13

    Flirting and Pining and Cheating and Swapping
    Posted on 06/08/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    Art School Confidential is a movie about whether it is worse to be an art poser or a serial killer. The serial killer character has a strike against him from the start, since he is strangling strangers all over campus. But, we learn, the killer is a sensitive, wounded painter who has been driven to madness by the corruption of the art world.
    Posted on 05/11/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    So far there are four martial-art films made by art-house Asian directors: Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; Hero; House of Flying Daggers; and now, The Promise. The best of this growing group is Hero (directed by Zhang Yimou, photographed by Christopher Doyle),
    Posted on 05/04/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    The thing about the summer-of-2000 hit Bring It On is that its greatness was utterly improbable. A fluffy subject (cheerleading), an unknown writer and director (Jessica Bendinger and Peyton Reed), and a star (Kirsten Dunst) who could offer at most a smidgen of credibility, made the movie's snapback brilliance a genuine surprise.
    Posted on 04/27/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    Innocence, an astounding debut by French director Lucile Hadzihalilovic, feels as though it should begin as stories do—with "once upon a time," like the click of a latch in the door to the imaginary. Instead, it starts with a rumble. There's the rush of a waterfall (explicitly named in the title of the novella it's adapted from: Mine-Haha, or The Corporal Education of Young Girls) and then the subterranean roar of a train, the universal sign for a European boarding school.
    Posted on 04/13/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    Novice writer-director Rian Johnson's $500,000 marvel Brick is one of those all-too-rare movies that sends my jaded affect flying out the window. This is the most honestly juiced I've felt about a film since I don't know when.
    Posted on 04/06/2006
  • Film

    On Screen

    Don't Come Knocking, Joyeux Noël, and More
    Posted on 03/23/2006

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