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  How John Wick Restored My Faith in Violent Movies
  By Stephanie Zacharek
  Thu Oct 23, 2014

  This essay contains a spoiler or two for John Wick. There's too much violence in movies today -- too much of the wrong kind, though if you asked... More >>

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  Nightcrawler's Jake Gyllenhaal on Why We're to Blame for Tabloid News
  By Amy Nicholson
  Thu Oct 23, 2014

  Jake Gyllenhaal is used to exhaustion. During his research for the LAPD dramaEnd of Watch, he spent five months patrolling the streets with... More >>

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  Frances McDormand Is an Unpredictable Curmudgeon in HBO's Magnificent Olive Kitteridge
  By Inkoo Kang
  Thu Oct 23, 2014

  When we first meet the title character in Olive Kitteridge, she considers the revolver in her hands and looks up at the cloudless sky above the... More >>

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  Nick Cave's New Movie Doesn't Quite Reveal the Man Behind the Myth -- and That's a Good Thing
  By Ian S. Port
  Thu Oct 2, 2014

  In one Nick Cave song, a pedophiliac outlaw caps a murder spree by killing the devil himself. In another, the narrator muses on Miley Cyrus while... More >>

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  Zero Theorem Director Terry Gilliam Explains What Brazil Got Wrong
  By Amy Nicholson
  Thu Sep 11, 2014

  "I'll always be anti-authoritarian, as long as I live," says Terry Gilliam, the comic provocateur who's been taking aim at the establishment for... More >>

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  Don't Watch That, Watch This: Geek Cinema Selfie Party
  By Michael Atkinson
  Thu Sep 11, 2014

  What's fascinating, new and neglected across all major video platforms. Among other things, cinema has always been a ready-made self-eulogizer... More >>

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  How Kevin Smith Got Young Again
  By Amy Nicholson
  Thu Sep 11, 2014

  #454887520 / gettyimages.comJustin Long, Kevin Smith, Haley Joel Osment and Genesis Rodriguez of Tusk pose for a portrait during the 2014 Toronto... More >>

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  Bill Hader Can Make You Cry in The Skeleton Twins
  By Amy Nicholson
  Thu Sep 11, 2014

  Four years ago, comedian Bill Hader told his agent he wanted to do a drama. It took awhile. "I used to think typecasting wasn't a thing, and it... More >>

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  How Ferguson Became Ferguson: Urgent Doc Spanish Lake Tracks a St. Louis Suburb's Shift From White to Black
  By Alan Scherstuhl
  Thu Aug 21, 2014

  How did it get this way? That's one question left un-addressed in too much of the coverage of the clashes between police and protesters in... More >>

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  HBO's Captivated: The Trials of Pamela Smart Proves You Don't Always Know What You Think You Know
  By Alan Scherstuhl
  Thu Aug 14, 2014

  Maybe you think you know what Woody Allen did or didn't do in that summerhouse all those years ago. Maybe you look at his history -- shacking up... More >>

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  What If’s Daniel Radcliffe Explains Why He’ll Never Do a Rom-Com with Emma Watson
  By Amy Nicholson
  Thu Aug 7, 2014

  Daniel Radcliffe's first trip to Comic-Con kicked off like the world's cuddliest Nuremberg rally. This summer, just minutes after he walked into... More >>

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  Film Critics Need to Learn to Look -- and Enjoy
  By Charles Taylor
  Thu Aug 7, 2014

  Star presence, that distillation of charisma and sometimes glamour, lies at the heart of the movies' appeal. The star presence James Harvey... More >>

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  Robin Williams Could Always Find the Raw Seriousness in His Comedy
  By Stephanie Zacharek
  Thu Aug 7, 2014

  Even those of us who loved Robin Williams as a performer would have to say that sometimes he was too much -- too wired, too pleading, too on.... More >>

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  James Brown Killed Dumb Biopics: Why the Messy Get On Up Gets It Right
  By Alan Scherstuhl
  Thu Jul 31, 2014

  James Brown stripped pop to its rhythmic essentials: the groove and the grunt, the bridge and the scream. Tate Taylor’s Get On Up likewise... More >>