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A Love So Real

With Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, and Before Midnight, Richard Linklater has crafted a trilogy unlike any other. Read More

The Good Book

"The Great Gatsby" marks another chapter in the saga of Hollywood’s trying to harness the literary canon Read More

Reproductive Cycle

Sins of the father loom large in "The Place Beyond the Pines" and "The Company You Keep" Read More

Quick Take: Zero Dark Thirty

All the unwavering dispassion of history and the steely resolve of the CIA Read More

Bang Bang, You're Dead: Ten Violent Films That Pushed The Cinematic Envelope

From A Clockwork Orange to The Passion Of The Christ, these films have been upping the violence quotient since 1967 Read More

Quick Take: The Master

Paul Thomas Anderson has become America’s poet of visual silence, in a manner that more and more recalls Stanley Kubrick. Read More

The Art of Violence

If what a director puts onscreen can inspire, can’t it incite, too? Tussling over artistic responsibility Read More

Sorry, Spielberg. Move Over, Argo. Steve Erickson Would Like The Oscar to Go To…

In which our critic sets the academy straight Read More

Heroine’s Journey

Last year turned out to be filled with something all too rare in American movies: strong female leads. Read More

Quick Take: Seven Psychopaths on DVD

Martin McDonagh’s follow-up to 2008’s In Bruges is one of the best crime movies of the young century. Read More

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