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  Watch This With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures

  MTV’s couch-potato satirists “huh-huh” their way through an epic quest.

  May 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Laura Palmer lives—however briefly—in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me

  David Lynch’s coda/prologue to his hit TV series has a power all its own.

  May 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The second half of Twilight Zone: The Movie more than makes up for the first

  Two out of four ain’t bad for a horror omnibus film.

  May 15, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This In The Loop is as merciless as its spiritual ancestor, TV’s The Thick Of It

  Armando Iannucci (Veep) moves his savage political satire from the small screen to the big one.

  May 14, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Michael Mann twisted Miami Vice into something thrillingly new

  Largely ignored upon initial release, this moody re-imagining of the ’80s cop show is a major work.

  May 13, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Alfonso Cuarón puts a steamy spin on Great Expectations

  Pip, er, Finn gets some action in this unusually sexy Charles Dickens adaptation.

  May 10, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Beau Travail loosely and gorgeously re-imagines Billy Budd

  The Herman Melville classic is just a jumping-off point for French director Claire Denis.

  May 9, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The Archers’ A Canterbury Tale plays fast and loose with Chaucer

  You won’t ace your English final by watching Powell & Pressburger’s unusual take on the 14th-century stories.

  May 8, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This The Bard gets a millennial makeover in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet

  To see or not to see? Spare yourself the debate. This Shakespeare adaptation is stellar.

  May 7, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Between Cape Fear and Casino, Martin Scorsese jazzed up Edith Wharton in The Age Of Innocence

  In one his most undervalued films, Marty applies his electrifying techniques to a faithful literary adaptation.

  May 6, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This A low budget can’t squash Super’s ambitions

  Rainn Wilson goes from zero to “hero” in James Gunn’s demented addition to the costumed-crusader canon.

  May 3, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Believe it or not, Sky High is a blast

  Overcoming a less-than-promising pedigree, this Hollywood superhero comedy soars.

  May 2, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This A love of comic books fuels the affecting Unbreakable

  Dubbed a disappointment upon release, the superhero flick looks today like M. Night Shyamalan’s best movie.

  May 1, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This It’s hard out there for a hero in Big Man Japan

  Defending the city from monsters is a thankless job in comedian Hitoshi Matsumoto’s directorial debut.

  April 30, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This America, fuck yeah? Not so much, says Mr. Freedom

  Expat filmmaker William Klein skewers his home country in a hilariously bitter satire.

  April 29, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Even by the standards of noir, Night Moves is harsh

  Gene Hackman snoops around the Florida Keys in Arthur Penn’s ultra-bleak crime flick.

  April 26, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This Wild Things delivers salaciousness with a wink

  There’s more to this trashy Florida noir than just bare flesh. Maybe.

  April 25, 2013 | 10:30am -

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  Watch This Body Heat blends graphic sexuality with old-school noir glamour

  Screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan’s directorial debut is the truest expression of his deep reverence for Hollywood’s past.

  April 24, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Humphrey Bogart fights his own heroic bent yet again in Key Largo

  This storm-wracked drama reunited Bogie and Lauren Bacall once more for a hotel-based take on the home-invasion drama.

  April 23, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Palmetto drags film-noir conventions into the ‘90s

  A little-seen Southern potboiler offers a classical counterpoint to the hipper crime larks of the Clinton era.

  April 22, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Before Star Wars, George Lucas was an indie filmmaker

  A long time ago, in a galaxy not so far away, George Lucas made a small and personal debut.

  April 19, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This John Carpenter’s debut, Dark Star, plays like a parody of the later Alien

  Alien’s writer and Halloween’s director launched their careers with a deep-space spoof.

  April 18, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This The cerebral sci-fi classic Solaris is for adventurous viewers only

  Thirty years before Steven Soderbergh vexed audiences with a glossy remake, Andrei Tarkovsky unleashed an even more challenging sci-fi opus.

  April 17, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Universal’s brief indie fling produced great, odd results like Silent Running

  A ’70s experiment in low-budget cinema with minimal studio oversight produced a series of startling films, including this science-fiction oddity.

  April 16, 2013 | 11:00am -

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  Watch This Fantastic Planet turns dreamy alien exotica into a political metaphor

  Today, the film is more worth watching for its spectacular imagery than its simple take on rebellion.

  April 15, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This John Sayles’ Eight Men Out pities the plight of the working baseball player

  A star-filled historical movie explores the 1919 Black Sox scandal with nuance and consideration for nearly everyone involved.

  April 12, 2013 | 12:00am -

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  Watch This The Dominicans in Ballplayer: Pelotero compete on an unequal playing field

  A documentary about the talent-rich world of Dominican baseball players reveals abuse within the system.

  April 11, 2013 | 1:00pm -

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  Watch This Bingo Long mashes up ’70s tropes with a story about black indie baseballers

  Billy Dee Williams and James Earl Jones lead a stellar cast in John Badham’s rollicking lesson in baseball history.

  April 10, 2013 | 10:00am -

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  Watch This Sugar goes beyond hits and runs in revealing the American immigrant experience

  Anna Boden and Ryan Fleck’s follow-up to Half Nelson defies the norms of the sports movie.

  April 9, 2013 | 12:00pm -

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  Watch This Why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie ever made

  Ron Shelton’s endlessly quotable romantic comedy makes passion its subject.

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