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  What Gatsby Gets Wrong: Ten Ways the New Movie Will Trip Up the Lazy Students of Tomorrow
  By Amanda Lewis
  Thu May 9, 2013

  The only thing we English teachers hate more than Sparknotes is a high quality, mostly faithful movie version of a book. Why would a student slog... More >>

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  Reality
  By Michael Atkinson
  Thu May 2, 2013

  Rampaging through the otherwise arid desert-scape of contemporary Italian cinema, Matteo Garrone doesn't want for ambition or walnuts — he... More >>

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  Upstream Color
  By Andrew Welch
  Thu Apr 18, 2013

  The camera establishes a tent in the middle of a field. We're in the country, we assume, far away from any metropolis. Then, with a cut to the... More >>

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  Lords of Salem
  By Simon Abrams
  Thu Apr 18, 2013

  After working a packed auditorium into a frenzy at last September’s premiere of Lords of Salem at the Toronto International Film Festival,... More >>

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  Roger Ebert: Why There Can Never Be Another
  By Calum Marsh
  Thu Apr 11, 2013

  A common sentiment recurs through the abundance of eulogies and obituaries penned by film critics in the wake of his death late last week: Roger... More >>

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  Matthew Weiner Explains Betty Draper, Mad Men's "Melancholy Dame"
  By Ali Trachta
  Thu Apr 4, 2013

  By Mad Men’s fifth season, Betty Draper had walked out of our lives, and a much plumper Betty Francis had waddled in. The audience response... More >>

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  Spring Breakers
  By Scott Foundas
  Thu Mar 21, 2013

  "All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun," goes Jean-Luc Godard's quip. Add to that a few more girls and their bikinis and you have the... More >>

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  Here are Five Awesome/Crazy Theories About The Shining from Room 237
  By Alan Scherstuhl
  Thu Mar 21, 2013

  Like the blood that gushes forth from the elevators of the Overlook Hotel, brilliant/ridiculous theories of what Stanley Kubrick’s The... More >>

• Admission
  By Stephanie Zacharek
  Thu Mar 21, 2013

  An actress in her 30s — a woman, that is, still playing characters of babymaking age — may have it even tougher than actresses in... More >>

• On the Road is Tamed at Last
  Nick Pinkerton
  Thu Mar 21, 2013

  Two sacred texts of the '50s proto-counterculture have escaped the rapacious machine of cinema adaptation for a half-century. One is J.D.... More >>