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    My Bloody Valentine

    Shockingly, worth the 22-year wait

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  • Fade

    Yo La Tengo

    Hoboken's finest at the top of their game

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  • Lonerism

    Tame Impala

    Australian psych-rockers keep getting better.

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  • An Awesome Wave

    Alt-J

    2012's most exciting debut album.

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  • New York Drawings

    Adrian Tomine

    The picture of the quintessential New Yorker.

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  • Indecision

    Benjamin Kunkel

    Twenty's the new twelve, or something.

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  • More Baths Less Talking

    Nick Hornby

    Book Criticism without the pretentious fluff.

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  • My Heart Is an Idiot

    Davy Rothbart

    Life on the road with your heart on your sleeve.

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  • Holy Motors

    Leos Carax

    One of the most tenderly outlandish films in recent memory.

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  • Argo

    Ben Affleck

    Affleck's best film yet.

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  • Seven Psychopaths

    Martin McDonagh

    Smarter than its premise implies.

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  • Butter

    Jim Field Smith

    Inventive small-town satire with lots of surprises.

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  • Rineke Dijkstra: A Retrospective

    Rineke Dijkstra

    Artful awkwardness at the Guggenheim.

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  • Sharon Hayes: There’s So Much I Want to Say to You

    Act, now.

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  • This American Life

    Ira Glass

    An exhilarating and expansive look at American life.

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  • Ghosts in the Machine at The New Museum

    We, robot.

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