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Are you having enough chances to see documentaries? I myself in the past couple of weeks missed my chances at Fuel and The Way We Get By, the latest environmental and Iraq War documentaries respectively. I ...

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Something Done

The standard line on A Serious Man, and I see no reason to deviate from it, is that this is the Coen brothers’ most “personal” work to date. To be sure, the brothers have never ...

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After Life, Lady Snowblood, Audition

Stefan TanakaProfessor of history, UCSD Even though Halloween has little connection to Japan, the ghosts ...

Strange Brew, Rachel Getting Married, Merce Cunningham's Split Sides

Gaaron VarnerThe Cinema Drinker I recommend Strange Brew. Disclaimer: This movie does not accurately depict ...

Hard Boiled, the Innocents, Jack Frost

Philip BarrettAssociate editor, atomicpopcorn.net Hard Boiled is what most action films aspire to be but ...

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