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Goodbye First Love
Like her 2009 feature The Father of My Children, Mia Hansen-Løve’s Goodbye First Love restricts its gaze to the level of observation, never tipping over into expressionism to reveal inner realities. This approach unites
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Marley
Bob Marley has one of the most famous visages in the world. Along with Michael Jordan and Michael Jackson, Marley is one of those celebrities who managed to transcend cultural boundaries and somehow inexplicably
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Hit So Hard: The Life and Near Death Story of Patty Schemel
Rock documentaries are a strange breed. Tracking the ups and downs of a band or an individual musician almost invariably winds up becoming so insular that it’s hard to fathom how the resulting film
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Keyhole
Few directors are as drawn to the idea of film as surrealist self-evaluation as Guy Maddin. The Canadian filmmaker has functioned for the past few decades as a kind of David Lynch of the
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My Mars Bar Movie
A love letter to a vanished landmark, My Mars Bar Movie functions as a kind of visual scrapbook, collecting some of the filmmaker’s memories from his dearly departed local, handily captured through years of
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Oki’s Movie
By now, critics have noted Hong Sang-soo’s tendency to repeat himself, in plots, themes, character types, style and tone. His harshest critics might say he’s making the same film over and over again, an
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Monsieur Lazhar
The sound design of Philippe Falardeau’s Monsieur Lazhar stresses the echo of school halls, the reverberating cacophony of footfalls, jumbled threads of chit-chat and the slamming of metal lockers. It subtly casts an elementary
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The Cabin in the Woods
It is impossible to discuss The Cabin in the Woods, the latest meta-horror film, without including spoilers. If you plan to see the movie, know this: it is quite clever, quite gory, very funny
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Bully
The Bieb has gotten behind it. The New York Yankees have stepped out of the batter’s box for it. Now it’s time for you to stand up and fight off bullying after watching Lee
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The Hunter
In The Hunter, Willem Dafoe plays Martin David, a crack tracker who is hired by a big firm to journey into the Australian wilderness in search of the Tasmanian tiger, an animal long extinct
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