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The New Cult Canon Let The Right One In

A film about friendships and bloodletting.

February 4, 2010 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Man Bites Dog

Which came first: the killer or the camera?

January 28, 2010 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Requiem For A Dream

Need... score... repeat.

January 21, 2010 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Zero Effect

Sherlock Holmes has nothing on this smart modern reinvention.

January 14, 2010 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Bottle Rocket

Wes Anderson's debut follows some easily distracted men on a mission.

January 7, 2010 | 12:00am -

The New Cult Canon Bad Santa

He doesn't want to wish you a Merry Christmas.

December 17, 2009 | 12:14pm -
The New Cult Canon Army Of Darkness

Some movies have rich subtexts. Others have heroes with chainsaws for arms.

November 19, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon In The Company Of Men

Neil LaBute's debut still maintains its power to shock.

November 12, 2009 | 12:00pm -
The New Cult Canon Hedwig And The Angry Inch

Looking for the origin of love in a cheap seafood restaurant.

November 5, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Ginger Snaps

Sometimes "the curse" really is a curse.

October 29, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Army Of Shadows

Suppressed in the ’60s, this World War II classic has recently found itself a cult.

October 22, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon The Stepfather

Before he was Locke on Lost, he was a psycho stepdad who murdered his way across the country in a personification of the Reagan Revolution.

October 15, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Nicolas Winding Refn’s Pusher trilogy

A trilogy explores a dirty business from several angles.

October 8, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Head-On

Crazy in love (and out and then back in again).

October 1, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Napoleon Dynamite

The squeaky clean freak show that conquered the world.

September 24, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Slacker

Withdrawing in disgust: Same as apathy?

September 3, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon The Lovers On The Bridge

A love story. With fireworks.

August 27, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Stuck

The director of Re-Animator takes on a horror from real-life.

August 20, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Dead Ringers

David Cronenberg and Jeremy Irons create a pair of twins, separate and inequal.

August 13, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Naked

Mike Leigh pays tribute to the human spirit in the ugliest way possible.

August 6, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Beetlejuice

Remember when Michael Keaton was an up-and-coming wild man?

July 30, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Pootie Tang

Critics and mainstream audiences hated this blaxploitation sendup, but they may have missed the humor in its specificity, absurdism, and daring.

July 23, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Lost Highway

Revisiting the dark turns of an oft-overlooked David Lynch movie.

July 9, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Darkman

So who was Darkman?

July 2, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon I Heart Huckabees

What does Shania Twain have in common with a rock? Only one film dares to ponder the question.

June 25, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Quick Change

Bill Murray just wants to rob a bank and go home, okay?

June 18, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Trust

Can love be reduced to an equation?

June 11, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Code Unknown

A master of philosophical violence and philosophy about violence turns the "everything is connected" movie upside-down.

June 4, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Team America: World Police

Puppet satire! Fuck yeah!

May 28, 2009 | 12:00am -
The New Cult Canon Brick

High school goes noir.

May 21, 2009 | 12:00am -