Washington Post television critic Tom Shales never really cottoned to the idea of Christiane Amanpour hosting ABC News' Sunday morning show, This Week. And in his comically bitchy review of Amanpour's debut yesterday, he wonders: does she support the Taliban?

Critics hate M. Night Shyamalan's new film The Last Airbender. Audiences don't care: The film has grossed $53.2 million since opening Thursday, and was number two at the box office . Take that, critics. [NYT]

Sixth Sense director M. Night Shyamalan has a new movie out. It's called The Last Airbender; it is apparently based on some kind of cartoon; and it really, truly sucks. Like, "4 per cent 'fresh' on Rotten Tomatoes" sucks.

Yesterday, Lori Mason won plaudits from kinky sex freaks far and wide for allowing her chef husband to make cheese from her breast milk. Alas! Now comes a food critic to dispel your dreams of tasty human bosom curd.

Yikes. We all knew that the new overstuffed, all-star ensemble Love Actually rip-off Valentine's Day was going to be bad — Topher Grace and Taylor Swift?? — but not this bad. The reviews are in and they are, mostly, scathing.

Are you a There Will Be Blood kinda guy, or an Eternal Sunshine kinda gal? The choice of our favorite movie of the decade is one of the most important we as individuals can make.

Next week the world's critics will have their (completely meaningless) say about whether James Cameron's 3D extravaganza was worth waiting a decade for. But today, a couple British papers are jumping the gun to say it didn't suck.

Steve Barnes (pictured), the Albany restaurant critic who was assaulted by a professional mixed martial arts fighter last year (probably) because of something he wrote, reports today: Albany restaurateurs are going to punch each other.

It was a nailbiter, and the fierce competition came down to the wire. In a summer led by Transformers 2, it seemed like movie released was the worst movie of the summer. But only one film could win.

This morning former NYT food critic and media tour-taker Frank Bruni revealed the secret aliases he used, for reviewing restaurants! Way too late to matter. But we must know everything, from his bulimic childhood to his fraudulent credit card details.

Former NYT food critic Frank Bruni's big (eh) Nightline appearance is coming up. Its highlight: Bruni giving the full review treatment to a Choco Taco. No stars? Hey bro, I'll eat it. Watch the magic, below.

Sam Sifton is trying to stay undercover, as the New York Times food critic, despite the invention of internet photo-sharing. Fat chance. Precisely!

Roger Ebert, the only critic in America who understood how awesome KN0W1NG was, is taking on cable shouter Bill O'Reilly.

Looking for that elusive, one-of-a-kind resource to help you attain Ben Lyons's dizzying heights of film literacy? Oh. Well, he's revealed his secret anyway.

The Berlin Film Festival launched today with the world premiere of Clive Owen's financial-intrigue thriller The International, and we regret to inform that it was critically wounded almost instantly. But recovery is expected!

It's been nothing but bad news for Giuseppe Cipriani these past few months and the family will face off in court against Rainbow Room landlord Tishman Speyer later this month. One person who probably won't be putting in a good word with the judge: Bloomberg food critic Ryan Sutton, who is so outraged by his recent "crummy three-course dinner for two" that cost $513 ($621 when you factor in the drinks) that he says that "the Ciprianis should be banished from the Rainbow Room." Also? "They should apologize for desecrating one of Manhattan's great sky-high vistas with sky-high prices for airline food. [Bloomberg]

Sadly, yet another distinguished film critic was put down last Friday when LA Weekly shed veteran scribe Ella Taylor.

Remember when Eddie Murphy's post-Dreamgirls Oscar fantasy died in the blast of the bomb that followed it? Anne Hathaway, we have found your Norbit.

The Million Dollar Arm was a contest launched in India a couple years ago that attempted to find the country's fastest pitcher and get him into the Major Leagues—sort of Bull Durham meets Slumdog Millionaire.

Believe it or not, there are five critics whose year-end Top 10 lists are even more mystifying, patience-testing and all-around terrible than those five awarded here yesterday. And the Listys go to...