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Évocateur Considers The Mouth That Ate Itself Morton Downey Jr. roars again
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June 06, 2013
Used to be to get famous in the right-wing-blowhard racket you had to have an act. Not today. Has anyone ever once thought, "Oh, I can't wait to... More>>
If George R. R. Martin Wrote Every TV Show Ever
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June 06, 2013
George R. R. Martin took a break from killing Starks today to send us this list of the notes he would send to the producers of TV shows if he... More>>
Fighting Hippie Hobos for Corporate Overlords In The East Brit Marling saves the world from the world-savers
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May 30, 2013
You're either with Brit Marling, or you're against her. The 29-year-old blond filmmaker (who describes herself on Twitter as a tree... More>>
After Earth: Smith Family Robinson The adventure flick pretends it's not an M. Night Shyamalan film
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May 30, 2013
The surprise twist in the new M. Night Shyamalan film is that the film is directed by M. Night Shyamalan, a fact that the movie—like the... More>>
The Kings of Summer: Whatever Happened to Predictability? It's here, where life is a sitcom
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May 30, 2013
It's to the great detriment of The Kings of Summer that it follows the identically premised Mud by just weeks. Both films tell bittersweet... More>>
After Auteur: How M. Night Shyamalan Became Just Another Director Quick: Name the new M. Night Shyamalan summer blockbuster
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May 30, 2013
Wait, you didn't know that After Earth, the Will Smith–Jaden Smith sci-fi adventure hitting theaters this weekend, is the latest from... More>>
In Omit the Logic, Richard Pryor Crucifies Himself, Again and Again
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May 30, 2013
“Least you got to see a motherfucker crucify himself,” Richard Pryor spits in the most surprising footage director Marina Zenovich... More>>
Director Rama Burshtein on Fill the Void: It's About the Ultra-Orthodox Jewish Community, But Isn't for Them
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May 30, 2013
The Israeli arranged-marriage drama Fill the Void begins as a spy caper. Eighteen-year-old Shira (Hadas Yaron) and her mother (Irit Sheleg) play... More>>
Nostalghia: A Light That Never Goes Out Tarkovsky's great 1983 film stands un-snuffed
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May 30, 2013
A few years ago, a lit-mag editor treated me and other dinner guests to the story—almost certainly apocryphal—of another lit-mag... More>>
The End of All Things, Except Narration In The Wall Is this a film or an illustrated audiobook?
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May 30, 2013
Your end-times fantasy most likely says a lot about you. Adherents to the Left Behind eschatology must at some level relish the notion of... More>>
And Now, Tobias Fünke and George Michael! Arrested Development's David Cross and Michael Cera on Mitch Hurwitz's genius and Orange County's 'esteemed taste'
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May 23, 2013
When Netflix representatives asked us which Arrested Development cast members we wanted to interview for 20 minutes, the choice was unanimous:... More>>
'The Hangover Part III': Heart of Fartness The so-called Wolf Pack punches down
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May 23, 2013
The unlikeliest of all the Hangover trilogy's comic implausibilities might be its four pampered, rich-boy leads unironically calling themselves... More>>
Cannes: Steven Soderbergh's Behind the Candelabra Is a Delightful Little Curio
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May 23, 2013
Ladies and gentlemen—anyone, really, who cares about his or her mug—step right up. According to a bit of advice proffered in one of... More>>
'Before Midnight''s Aftermath The lovers of 'Before Sunrise' and 'Before Sunset' face the darkness
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May 23, 2013
Ask people about their favorite movies, and the same titles come up regularly—Casablanca, Pulp Fiction, Annie Hall, Citizen Kane. But some... More>>
'Fast & Furious 6': Oh, This Is Why We Have Car Chases The sublime dumb play of Justin Lin's latest installment in the series
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May 23, 2013
There's one key truth that separates the tank-topped gearheads of the Fast and Furious movies from the rest of us. Every problem these lugnuts... More>>
Lens Flares and the End of Film Master cinematographers on the end of a medium
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May 23, 2013
Daniel Mindel, ASC, is part of an ever-shrinking population: cinematographers who have yet to shoot a feature digitally. He acknowledges that he... More>>
In Want of a (Haredi) Wife in 'Fill the Void' A betrothal drama illuminates Hasidic life
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May 23, 2013
Rama Burshtein's Fill the Void opens on green leaves, smiling faces, lush billows of fabric that—when pieced together, the sensuous images... More>>
Hate-Watching 'Hating Breitbart' Fudging the truth with the late Tea Partier
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May 23, 2013
Let's say that you and your friends get accused of being racist. And let's say there's nothing in your heart that fits that accusation. You know... More>>
'We Steal Secrets: The Story of WikiLeaks': All the News That's Fit to Hack Alex Gibney's documentary draws too few conclusions
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May 23, 2013
There's a thing that sometimes happens to copy editors, the workhorses who do the final grammar cleanup, general fine-tuning and, sometimes,... More>>
Cannes: Refn's Again with Ryan Gosling, but Only God Forgives Isn't in the Same League as Drive
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May 23, 2013
Expectations here in Cannes were high—or at least semi-high—for Nicolas Winding Refn's Only God Forgives, in which Kristin Scott... More>>
Cannes: Marion Cotillard Shines in James Gray's The Immigrant
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May 23, 2013
You know those two little lines you get in your forehead when you frown? The ones that, if you frown too much, stick there for good? The French... More>>
Fast & Furious & Elegant: Justin Lin and the Vulgar Auteurs
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May 23, 2013
Justin Lin may strike some as out of place in the pantheon of contemporary auteurs. The Taiwanese-born American filmmaker, best known for having... More>>
Kirk Versus Khan Redux In 'Star Trek: Into Darkness' J.J. Abrams' grand, familiar 'Star Trek'
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May 16, 2013
"Who are you?" pleads a doomed man as Benedict Cumberbatch looms into his first close-up in Star Trek: Into Darkness.
The answer is Khan. And... More>>
Here's to Frances Ha, the New New Girl Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's not quite a real person yet
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May 16, 2013
New York is a cruel and beautiful place, just as 27 is a cruel and beautiful age. In Frances Ha, Greta Gerwig plays a woman who's feeling the... More>>
There Ain't No Good Guys In 'Black Rock' Katie Aselton upends thriller convention until it doesn't
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May 16, 2013
Seemingly crafted to validate the fears of those conservatives who rage that the white man can't get respect on the big screen these days, Katie... More>>
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