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Jackpot

Magnus Martens

A crafty and clever Norwegian crime caper.

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Sweet Talk

Stephanie Vaughn

The return of a classic.

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Threats

Amelia Gray

Paranoia will destroy you.

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Keyhole

Guy Maddin

A beguiling, beautiful film about ghosts, gangsters, and love.

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TV Review: Game of Thrones is back

By Adrienne McIlvaine

The year-long wait is over.

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Casa de Mi Padre

Matt Piedmont

A low-budget, bighearted film that's funny in any language.

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Melancholia

Lars von Trier

A grandly ambitious and striking film.

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New on DVD: March 13th

By Eric Schneider

Major video releases this week

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A History of Violence

David Cronenberg

A deceptively quiet and tense film about love, violence, and… >>

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Game of Thrones

David Benioff

An epic fantasy series for people who hate fantasy.

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Books News

Hachette to re-issue three Christopher Hitchens titles

By Anna Graizbord

A silver lining for Hitchens fans.

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Books News

Long live Barney Rosset!

By Damian Van Denburgh

Legendary publisher's legacy lives on.

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Hope: A Tragedy

Shalom Auslander

You can’t outrun history.

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The Hour of the Star

Clarice Lispector

The Hour of the Star shines brightly.

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The Woman in Black

James Watkins

Gothic gloom at its ghostly and frightening finest.

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Books Review

The Map and the Territory

Michel Houellebecq

The continuing decline of Western Civilization.

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Music News

R.I.P. Etta James

By Anna Graizbord

An esteemed R&B-pop crossover artist passes.

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The Divide

Xavier Gens

A grimy post-apocalyptic thriller that's hard to shake.

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The Flowers of War

Zhang Yimou

A compelling, but unbalanced, story of love and survival during… >>

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Blue Nights

Joan Didion

Truth hits everybody.

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The Man on the Train

Mary McGuckian

An intimate tale of two strangers who form an unlikely… >>

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Trick 'r Treat

Michael Dougherty

A dark and devilish delight.

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The Descendants

Alexander Payne

A road movie that never finds its way.

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Shame

Steve McQueen

A disturbing and sexually fraught character study.

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Books Review

The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock

Violence and death soil the Midwest.

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Tucker & Dale vs. Evil

Eli Craig

An instant comedy-horror classic.

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Restless

Gus Van Sant

A sweet, sad, and strange tale of young love.

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Contagion

Steven Soderbergh

A convincing and extremely tense medical thriller.

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Books Review

Ether

Evgenia Citkowitz

Ether could use some breathing room.

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The Old Romantic

Louise Dean

Doesn’t kindle any flames.

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Suicide

Édouard Levé

A moving investigation into the implications of suicide.

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A Widow’s Story

Joyce Carol Oates

Oates on her late husband and literary collaborator, Raymond J.… >>

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Hesher

Spencer Susser

A surly stranger shocks a grieving family back to life… >>

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Pulse

Julian Barnes

Strong, but uneven.

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The Arbor

Clio Barnard

An inventive lip-synched pseudo-documentary about a British playwright's tragic legacy.

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Swamplandia!

Karen Russell

Gators and ghosts take center stage in Russell’s Floridian family… >>

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Enough About Love

Hervé Le Tellier

A light and breezy novel that’s actually quite serious.

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While the Women Are Sleeping

Javier Marías

A minor work from a major writer.

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The Walking Dead

Frank Darabont

A tense survival series that balances heart with horror.

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Lint

Chris Ware

Chris Ware's view of an unredeemed life.

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William S. Burroughs: A Man Within

Yony Leyser

An intimate and sympathetic look at an American iconoclast.

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Books Review

Comedy in a Minor Key

Hans Keilson

A classic is reborn.

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Enter the Void

Gaspar Noe

A disturbing, draining, and visually astonishing experiment from a director… >>

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The Quick and the Dead

Joy Williams

Charmingly morbid young girls’ lives tangle strangely following the deaths… >>

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Let Me In

Matt Reeves

Translated from its Swedish source with heart and horror intact.

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TV & Film Profile

Gus Van Sant

By Adrienne McIlvaine

A uniquely challenging and thought-provoking American director.

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Books Review

Aliss at the Fire

Jon Fosse

The past overpowers the present in Aliss at the Fire.

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I Am Love

Luca Guadagnino

A sumptuous film that chronicles the demise of a rich… >>

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The Quickening

Michelle Hoover

A solid debut from a writer to watch.

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Nox

Anne Carson

Nox gives new form to mourning as well as writing.

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A Single Man

Tom Ford

Mourning never looked as good as it does in A… >>

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A Single Man

Christopher Isherwood

A moving and singular reading experience.

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Shaun of the Dead

Edgar Wright

Love, humor, and gore collide in this zombie-infested tale.

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Critical Mob’s Top 10 Zombie Films

By Eric Schneider

"When there's no more room left in hell, the dead… >>

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Point Omega

Don DeLillo

Rich with implied and unanswered questions, this DeLillo outing is… >>

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Six Feet Under

Alan Ball

One of the smartest and most unpredictable dramas ever to… >>

Culture Review

Not Yet Titled

Banks Violette

With Banks Violette's spring 2009 solo show at Team Gallery… >>

Music Profile

The Flaming Lips

By T. Cole Rachel

Beloved Oklahoma freak-rockers.

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Culture List

James Ensor-esque Masks

By Carrie Tucker

The depiction of grotesque masks in marginalized Belgian painter James… >>

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Hippie Death Trips

By Stewart Mason

What happens when peace, love and flowers aren't the answer?… >>

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Forever Changes

Love (band)

Surface prettiness masks flower power's dark undercurrents

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TV & Film Profile

Pedro Almodóvar

By Adrienne McIlvaine

Spain's preeminent boundary-pushing, genre-defying filmmaker.

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Twin Peaks

David Lynch

Who killed Laura Palmer?

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Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Julian Barnes

Barnes faces up to death and dying in a funny,… >>