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Why Cool Runnings is the best (and most unusual) of Disney’s sports fables
By David Anthony November 8, 2013 | 6:00am
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25 years later, Jurassic Park still feels like the quintessential special-effects movie
By A.A. Dowd November 7, 2013 | 6:00am
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Naked is Mike Leigh’s nastiest movie—and maybe his best
By Mike D'Angelo November 6, 2013 | 7:00pm
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This week we’re barely putting up with Diana
By Amelie Gillette November 6, 2013 | 5:00pm
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He’s big, he’s bad, and he’s babysitting: 19 least essential entertainments from 1993
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Annie Zaleski, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Ignatiy Vishnevetsky, Matt Wild, Marah Eakin November 6, 2013 | 6:00am
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Dazed And Confused was no wistful remembrance of high school
By Kyle Ryan November 5, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Why Last Action Hero failed—and why it deserves to be rediscovered
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 5, 2013 | 6:00am
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Our week of 1993 recommendations begins with a Nicolas Cage neo-noir
By Nick Schager November 4, 2013 | 7:00pm
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Alec Baldwin declares himself God in the big scene from Malice
By Mike D'Angelo November 4, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: November 1-November 3
By AV Club Staff November 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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“After a couple of years no one will even remember”: 16 pop-culture windows into the world of 1993
By Annie Zaleski, Steve Heisler, Scott Von Doviak, Josh Modell, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin November 4, 2013 | 6:00am
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The horror of Cure lurks in the background
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky November 1, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Reese’s Pieces and Jawbreakers: The A.V. Club’s favorite uses of candy in pop culture
By Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Sonia Saraiya, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson November 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Just because you’re paranoid, doesn’t mean the pod people aren’t after you
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2013 | 5:01pm
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We watched all eight Halloween movies so you don't have to
By A.A. Dowd October 31, 2013 | 5:02am
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The most terrifying PBS special of all time
By Scott MacDonald October 30, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A Guillermo Del Toro-approved mystery features creepy ghost children
By Josh Modell October 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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24 Hours Of Horror with Slayer’s Kerry King
By A.A. Dowd October 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Fatherhood is terrifying, especially when your kid is a murderous mutant
By Nick Schager October 28, 2013 | 6:00pm
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“I see dead people—they don’t know they’re dead”: The confused dead in pop culture
By AV Club Staff October 28, 2013 | 4:30pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: October 25-October 27
By AV Club Staff October 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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Your rational skepticism won’t save you from the flying, cross-eyed demon
By A.A. Dowd October 25, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Revisiting Hocus Pocus, the silliest Halloween movie
By Sonia Saraiya October 25, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Johnny Knoxville on Jackass, Bad Grandpa, and having his dick grabbed on set
By Marah Eakin October 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Is the search for word-of-mouth consensus ruining the way we talk about movies?
By Jesse Hassenger October 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Which movie scenes scare you the most?
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin, Brandon Nowalk, Tasha Robinson October 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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John Brahm was the Mario Bava and Brian De Palma of the 1940s
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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G-g-g-ghosts? Movies that taught us about those haunting spirits
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, A.A. Dowd, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Oliver Sava, Marah Eakin, Mike Vago October 24, 2013 | 4:00pm
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It’s not just the direction that makes Donnie Darko creepy
By Scott Kaufman October 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Hal Hartley directs a monster movie—the monster is not sarcasm
By Mike D'Angelo October 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The Host is Bong Joon Ho’s river-monster daydream come to life
By Kyle Ryan October 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Wesley Snipes is a zombie cowboy (or something) in the long-shelved GallowWalkers
By Josh Modell October 21, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: October 18-October 20
By AV Club Staff October 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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From the right vantage point, even harmless trick-or-treaters look nightmarish
By Mike D'Angelo October 21, 2013 | 5:00am
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Who was the man behind The Scream?
By A.A. Dowd October 18, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The Room 2 and other sequels we’d like to see
By Josh Modell, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Andrea Battleground, Oliver Sava, Marah Eakin, Brandon Nowalk, Emily St. James, Mike Vago, Tasha Robinson, John Teti October 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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Today’s best action directors aren’t working in Hollywood, but in direct-to-video
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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A great biopic dices its subject’s life into 32 self-contained pieces
By Mike D'Angelo October 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Harvey Pekar’s ordinary life is pretty complex stuff in American Splendor
By Kyle Ryan October 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Carrie
By Amelie Gillette October 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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A big dinner and big dreams collide in Big Night
By Charlie Hopper October 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Before Tommy Wiseau and The Room, there was Ed Wood
By Josh Modell October 15, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Henry Fonda makes as good a Lincoln as Daniel Day-Lewis
By Nick Schager October 14, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Marvel at what Roman Polanski can do with four walls and a strong play
By Sam Adams October 10, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Sam Elliott on George Clooney’s eyes, Jeff Bridges’ dudeness, and working with Ron Swanson
By Will Harris October 10, 2013 | 3:45pm
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Tarantino? The Coens? Wong Kar-Wai? Each fell to a Romanian upstart at Cannes ’07
By A.A. Dowd October 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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In the best performance of his career, Kevin Costner plays a menacing father figure
By Nick Schager October 9, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Steven Spielberg’s first theatrical feature was a 110-minute car chase
By Kyle Ryan October 8, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Danny Boyle stretches the freak-out portion of the evening to feature-length
By Jesse Hassenger October 7, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Mistakes happen. So why don’t more movies leave them in?
By Mike D'Angelo October 7, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: October 4-October 6
By AV Club Staff October 7, 2013 | 5:00am
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Kindred on the silver screen: 29 big-screen family reunions
By Annie Zaleski, Kyle Ryan, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sonia Saraiya, Claire Zulkey, Mike Vago October 7, 2013 | 5:00am
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There are gambling addicts and then there’s this guy
By Mike D'Angelo October 4, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Indie filmmaker Matthew Porterfield talks about his new divorce drama I Used To Be Darker
By A.A. Dowd October 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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The very best fictional concerts
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Annie Zaleski, Becca James, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Mike Vago, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson October 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Chow Yun-Fat acts like a 5-year-old. It’s awesome.
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky October 3, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Harry Dean Stanton on nearly 60 years of acting and the scene that never should have been cut
By Will Harris October 3, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Gravity
By A.A. Dowd October 2, 2013 | 7:47pm
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David Mamet totally nails card-shark talk
By Sam Adams October 2, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Poker, hookers, and Elliott Gould with a nose bandage
By Nick Schager October 1, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Steven Soderbergh’s The Underneath plays like a dry run to later triumphs
By Jesse Hassenger September 30, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Sly Stallone’s Paradise Alley is like nothing else he ever made
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 27, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Tom Hiddleston on why he loves Much Ado About Nothing
By Emily St. James September 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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Eye Of God is a devastating directorial debut for Tim Blake Nelson
By Scott MacDonald September 26, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Craig T. Nelson on comedy, chemistry, and more
By Will Harris September 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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Violent Cop is an aptly titled debut
By Nick Schager September 25, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Showgirls 2
By Amelie Gillette September 25, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Marvin Gaye, of Se7en fame? 19 strange default IMDB screen credits
By Kyle Ryan September 25, 2013 | 5:00am
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Edward Norton casts himself as a lovelorn priest in Keeping The Faith
By Jesse Hassenger September 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Sam Rockwell on dialects, working with Woody Allen, and stealing from the best
By A.A. Dowd September 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Why didn’t Tom Noonan’s directing career take off after What Happened Was…?
By Michael Sicinski September 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Purists be damned, Grease benefits from tossing out the show’s songbook
By Mike D'Angelo September 23, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Baz Luhrmann does his ostentatious thing with Strictly Ballroom
By Nick Schager September 20, 2013 | 5:00pm
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A book of flexi-discs, the history of film, a viable-but-dead Tron property, and mumblegore
By Phil Dyess-Nugent, Kevin McFarland, Emily St. James, Marah Eakin September 20, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Do Hollywood movies come any bleaker than They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
By Scott MacDonald September 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Prisoners
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky September 19, 2013 | 5:05am
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This week we're barely putting up with Don Jon
By Amelie Gillette September 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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All That Jazz was Bob Fosse’s portrait of the artist as total bastard
By Kyle Ryan September 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Fred Astaire finds romance and redemption through dance in Swing Time
By Jesse Hassenger September 17, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Rain and The Replacements: The A.V. Club recaps Riot Fest 2013
By Sean O'Neal, David Anthony, Josh Modell, Bob Marshall, Kevin McFarland September 16, 2013 | 6:11pm
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The Company comes startlingly close to documentary
By Michael Sicinski September 16, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Not even Michael Chiklis’ accent and Forest Whitaker’s growl can save Pawn
By Josh Modell September 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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What’s crime without passion, even if it involves a son pining for his own mother?
By Scott MacDonald September 13, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Toronto 2013, Day Eight: Nicolas Cage shines in David Gordon Green's Joe
By A.A. Dowd September 13, 2013 | 2:20pm
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Peter Weller on feminism, sequels, and more
By Will Harris September 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Fuck! The A.V. Club staff’s favorite uses of the F-word in media
By David Anthony, Becca James, Brandon Nowalk, Annie Zaleski, Joel Keller, John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Matt Wild, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Sonia Saraiya, Les Chappell, Claire Zulkey, Laura M. Browning, Kevin McFarland, Steve Heisler, Erik Adams, Rowan Kaiser, Ryan McGee, Mike Vago, Marah Eakin, Tasha Robinson September 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Toronto 2013, Day Seven: A swan song by Hayao Miyazaki gets a warm reception from fans
By A.A. Dowd September 12, 2013 | 8:47pm
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Takashi Miike offers a strange brew of comedy, music, and mayhem
By Nick Schager September 12, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A family guide to the 2013 fall movie season, Part 2
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Josh Modell, Nick Schager September 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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Toronto 2013, Day Six: TIFF golden boy Jason Reitman drops a turkey with Labor Day
By A.A. Dowd, Ben Kenigsberg September 11, 2013 | 6:20pm
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Michelle Pfeiffer shows off her comedic chops in Jonathan Demme’s Married To The Mob
By Nick Schager September 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Never forgot: 9 entertainers who were changed by 9/11
By David Sims, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Rowan Kaiser September 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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A family guide to the 2013 fall movie season, Part 1
By Kevin McFarland, Kyle Ryan, A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Josh Modell, Nick Schager September 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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A brutal Australian crime family, led by the mom, gets in over its head
By Josh Modell September 10, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Toronto, Day Five: The Weinsteins somehow get a crowd-pleaser out of a Tracy Letts adaptation
By A.A. Dowd, Ben Kenigsberg September 10, 2013 | 4:54pm
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Toronto 2013, Day Four: Sunday brings follies, none more disappointing than Devil's Knot
By A.A. Dowd, Ben Kenigsberg September 9, 2013 | 8:40pm
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The O’Neals, Ryan and Tatum, make for appealing swindlers in Paper Moon
By Jesse Hassenger September 9, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A.V. Fest in pictures
By Josh Modell September 9, 2013 | 4:21pm
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David Mamet’s State And Main engineers a perfect punchline
By Mike D'Angelo September 9, 2013 | 4:00pm
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14 casting decisions that sparked outrage
By Noah Cruickshank, Scott Von Doviak, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Les Chappell, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Mike Vago September 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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Toronto 2013, Day Three: Gravity drops
By A.A. Dowd, Ben Kenigsberg September 8, 2013 | 5:06pm
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Toronto 2013, Day Two: Prisoners provides American genre thrills, while 12 Years A Slave gets the pundits bloviating
By A.A. Dowd, Ben Kenigsberg September 7, 2013 | 11:57am
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Serenity provides a stirring encore act for the desperados of Firefly
By Sam Adams September 6, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Toronto 2013, Day One: A Julian Assange biopic is no match for a Frederick Wiseman triumph
By A.A. Dowd, Ben Kenigsberg September 6, 2013 | 4:40pm
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The American Astronaut sets a bar for surrealist, cult-courting, musical B-Westerns
By Mike D'Angelo September 5, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Salinger
By Kyle Ryan September 5, 2013 | 3:49pm
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John Carpenter plays cowboys and Indians on the red planet with Ghosts Of Mars
By Nick Schager September 4, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Dave Chappelle, Hannibal Buress, and Flight Of The Conchords shine at Oddball Comedy Fest
By Matt Byrne September 3, 2013 | 5:38pm
