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A simple smile provokes major heebie-jeebies in Deathdream
By Mike D'Angelo June 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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Die Hard 2 loses the soul of the original, but succeeds as dumb fun
By Kyle Ryan May 31, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Zack Snyder delivers a passion project with Sucker Punch
By Sam Adams May 30, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Now You See Me
By A.A. Dowd May 30, 2013 | 5:05am
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The Lost Boys is a lovably cheesy teen horror flick
By Nick Schager May 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with Fast & Furious 6
By Amelie Gillette May 29, 2013 | 4:00pm
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“I learned it from you, Dad”: 15 father-son acting pairs and the movies they appeared in together
By Josh Modell, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Kevin McFarland, Marah Eakin May 29, 2013 | 5:00am
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Soldier’s sci-fi Western is inadvertent B-movie poetry
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 28, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 24-27
By AV Club Staff May 28, 2013 | 5:00am
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“How can the same shit happen to the same guy twice?”: 14 unnatural movie sequels
By Cory Casciato, John Semley, Kevin McFarland, A.A. Dowd, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Marah Eakin May 27, 2013 | 5:00am
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Cannes 2013, Day Ten: The big wrap-up, including Jim Jarmusch's fantastic vampire film
By Mike D'Angelo May 25, 2013 | 11:45pm
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The wages and the fear remain high in William Friedkin’s Sorcerer
By A.A. Dowd May 24, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Nine: James Gray and Joaquin Phoenix reteam for a compelling period drama
By Mike D'Angelo May 24, 2013 | 4:13pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Eight: Blue Is The Warmest Color captures a relationship’s rawness and beauty
By Mike D'Angelo May 23, 2013 | 4:20pm
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Vanishing Point caters to car nuts and existentialists alike
By Sam Adams May 23, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Ronin is a triumph of crime-flick economy
By Nick Schager May 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Cannes, Day Seven: J.C. Chandor makes good, Nicolas Winding Refn goes bad, and Claire Denis gets ugly
By Mike D'Angelo May 22, 2013 | 4:51pm
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This week we're barely putting up with The Hangover Part III
By Amelie Gillette May 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Thunder Road is one of the first, and finest, automotive action movies off the Hollywood lot
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 21, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Six: Michael Douglas plays Liberace in Steven Soderbergh’s swan song, Behind The Candelabra
By Mike D'Angelo May 21, 2013 | 5:28pm
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Walter Hill’s The Driver is all about work done well
By Nick Schager May 20, 2013 | 6:00pm
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A pint glass nicked from Forks, Washington, a.k.a. “Twilight, U.S.A.”
By Marah Eakin May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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A quiet scene from The Matrix demonstrates how to make exposition compelling
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Five : Takashi Miike schlocks it up, in a good way
By Mike D'Angelo May 20, 2013 | 3:37pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 17-19
By AV Club Staff May 20, 2013 | 5:00am
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Cannes 2013, Day Four: The Coen brothers return to the festival with a folk-rock flashback
By Mike D'Angelo May 19, 2013 | 7:39pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Three: Cheers for the young stars of The Selfish Giant, jeers for the new films by Hirokazu Kore-eda and Arnaud Desplechin
By Mike D'Angelo May 18, 2013 | 3:17pm
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With Beavis And Butt-head Do America, Mike Judge skewered the idiocy of cinematic adventures
By Mike D'Angelo May 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Cannes 2013, Day Two: Iranian director Asghar Farhadi chases A Separation with another stunning drama
By Mike D'Angelo May 17, 2013 | 3:38pm
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Sarah Polley on laying her family history bare in the new documentary Stories We Tell
By A.A. Dowd May 17, 2013 | 3:00pm
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What are your favorite and least favorite cultural baits and switches?
By Jason Heller, Noah Cruickshank, David Anthony, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Sonia Saraiya, John Potter May 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Star Trek Into Darkness
By A.A. Dowd May 16, 2013 | 5:36pm
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Cannes 2013, Day One: Sofia Coppola offers the first misfire of the festival
By Mike D'Angelo May 16, 2013 | 4:15pm
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Laura Palmer lives—however briefly—in Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
By Eric Thurm May 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Noah Baumbach on how Frances Ha helped him see New York City with new eyes
By Drew Fortune May 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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The second half of Twilight Zone: The Movie more than makes up for the first
By Sam Adams May 15, 2013 | 6:00pm
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In The Loop is as merciless as its spiritual ancestor, TV’s The Thick Of It
By Sam Adams May 14, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Michael Mann twisted Miami Vice into something thrillingly new
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 13, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 10-12
By AV Club Staff May 13, 2013 | 5:00am
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Alfonso Cuarón puts a steamy spin on Great Expectations
By Sam Adams May 10, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The current must-see movie, a pair of absurd Twitter feeds, and a dose of black metal
By Sean O'Neal, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Erik Adams May 10, 2013 | 3:00pm
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The films you’ve loved longest
By Nathan Rabin, Cory Casciato, Kyle Ryan, Noah Cruickshank, Jason Heller, Scott Von Doviak, Zack Handlen, Carrie Raisler, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Noel Murray, Emily St. James, Sonia Saraiya, Brandon Nowalk, Claire Zulkey, Tasha Robinson May 10, 2013 | 5:00am
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Beau Travail loosely and gorgeously re-imagines Billy Budd
By A.A. Dowd May 9, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The other side of summer: A preview of the season’s non-blockbuster movies
By A.A. Dowd, Mike D'Angelo, Sam Adams, Noah Cruickshank May 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Archers’ A Canterbury Tale plays fast and loose with Chaucer
By Sam Adams May 8, 2013 | 6:00pm
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This week we're barely putting up with The Great Gatsby
By Amelie Gillette May 8, 2013 | 4:00pm
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The hand that rocks the puppet: 13 pop-culture attempts to make puppets appealing to adult audiences
By Danny Gallagher May 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Bard gets a millennial makeover in Michael Almereyda’s Hamlet
By Mike D'Angelo May 7, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Upstream Color, Room 237, and why some movie mysteries don’t need to be solved
By Sam Adams May 7, 2013 | 5:00am
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Between Cape Fear and Casino, Martin Scorsese jazzed up Edith Wharton in The Age Of Innocence
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 6, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Shelley Duvall does the talking, but Sissy Spacek may be the real protagonist of Altman’s 3 Women
By Mike D'Angelo May 6, 2013 | 5:00pm
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The Red
By AV Club Staff May 6, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Vinny Chase and a weaponized hat: 9 alternate-universe takes on The Great Gatsby
By Marah Eakin, Kevin McFarland, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Noah Cruickshank May 6, 2013 | 5:00am
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: May 3-5
By AV Club Staff May 6, 2013 | 5:00am
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A low budget can’t squash Super’s ambitions
By Sam Adams May 3, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Iron Man 3
By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2013 | 4:55pm
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Believe it or not, Sky High is a blast
By Mike D'Angelo May 2, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Inner child vs. outer adult: Our conflicted guide to the summer movie season [part 2 of 2]
By Nathan Rabin, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Kyle Ryan, Tasha Robinson May 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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A love of comic books fuels the affecting Unbreakable
By A.A. Dowd May 1, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Concluding Case File #37: Moment By Moment
By Nathan Rabin May 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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Inner child vs. outer adult: Our conflicted guide to the summer movie season [part 1 of 2]
By Nathan Rabin, A.A. Dowd, Josh Modell, Kyle Ryan, Tasha Robinson May 1, 2013 | 5:00am
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It’s hard out there for a hero in Big Man Japan
By Noel Murray April 30, 2013 | 4:00pm
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They’re Out Of The Business provides a half-assed sequel to 1993’s My Life’s In Turnaround
By Nathan Rabin April 30, 2013 | 5:00am
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America, fuck yeah? Not so much, says Mr. Freedom
By A.A. Dowd April 29, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Billy Crystal supplies the dad jokes in Parental Guidance’s mind-numbing commentary
By Nathan Rabin April 29, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Even by the standards of noir, Night Moves is harsh
By Mike D'Angelo April 26, 2013 | 5:00am
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Wild Things delivers salaciousness with a wink
By Sam Adams April 25, 2013 | 3:30pm
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Body Heat blends graphic sexuality with old-school noir glamour
By Nathan Rabin April 24, 2013 | 6:00pm
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Welcome to the end of the world, have a Coke: 10 cases of prominent post-apocalyptic product placement
By John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Emily St. James, Tasha Robinson April 24, 2013 | 5:00am
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Humphrey Bogart fights his own heroic bent yet again in Key Largo
By Tasha Robinson April 23, 2013 | 6:00pm
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One man’s love for a little dog leads to a whole lot of human death in Revenge For Jolly!
By Nathan Rabin April 23, 2013 | 5:00am
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Palmetto drags film-noir conventions into the ‘90s
By A.A. Dowd April 22, 2013 | 6:00pm
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The big numbers are the lowlight of Dancer In The Dark
By Mike D'Angelo April 22, 2013 | 4:00pm
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John C. McGinley on 42, Oliver Stone, and missing the Oscars to watch the NCAA championship
By Nathan Rabin April 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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Product misplacement: 20-plus brands given unhelpful movie associations
By John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Scott Tobias, Joel Keller, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Erik Adams, Tasha Robinson April 22, 2013 | 5:00am
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Before Star Wars, George Lucas was an indie filmmaker
By Noel Murray April 19, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Kristin Scott Thomas has no time for nonsense
By Sam Adams April 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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John Carpenter’s debut, Dark Star, plays like a parody of the later Alien
By Noel Murray April 18, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Oblivion
By Tasha Robinson April 18, 2013 | 5:03am
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Why white critics’ fear of engaging Tyler Perry is stifling honest debate
By Joshua Alston April 18, 2013 | 5:00am
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The cerebral sci-fi classic Solaris is for adventurous viewers only
By Mike D'Angelo April 17, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Not up in smoke: 18-plus heroic movie stoners
By Nathan Rabin, Kyle Ryan, Zack Handlen, Sean O'Neal, Phil Dyess-Nugent, Andrea Battleground, Tasha Robinson, Genevieve Koski April 17, 2013 | 5:00am
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Universal’s brief indie fling produced great, odd results like Silent Running
By Sam Adams April 16, 2013 | 4:00pm
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Television icons of the geek world aim for cult status and fail with Sexy Evil Genius
By Nathan Rabin April 16, 2013 | 5:00am
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Nudity, profanity, and music energize Roger Ebert’s raucous Chicago memorial
By Nathan Rabin April 15, 2013 | 5:31pm
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Fantastic Planet turns dreamy alien exotica into a political metaphor
By Tasha Robinson April 15, 2013 | 5:00pm
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William Shatner negotiates with terrorists in The Kidnapping Of The President
By Noel Murray April 15, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Tell us about your pop-culture weekend: April 12-14
By AV Club Staff April 15, 2013 | 5:00am
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John Sayles’ Eight Men Out pities the plight of the working baseball player
By Tasha Robinson April 12, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Dominicans in Ballplayer: Pelotero compete on an unequal playing field
By Scott Tobias April 11, 2013 | 6:00pm
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New Cult Canon ends with the end times of Michael Tolkin’s The Rapture
By Scott Tobias April 11, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with The Big Wedding
By Amelie Gillette April 10, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Bingo Long mashes up ’70s tropes with a story about black indie baseballers
By Noel Murray April 10, 2013 | 3:00pm
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Sugar goes beyond hits and runs in revealing the American immigrant experience
By Nathan Rabin April 9, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Malcolm McDowell’s smirking Satan makes Suing The Devil ridiculous fun
By Nathan Rabin April 9, 2013 | 5:00am
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The cats, not the cast, draw viewers’ eyes in Jean Vigo’s classic L’Atalante
By Mike D'Angelo April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Why Bull Durham is the greatest baseball movie ever made
By Mike D'Angelo April 8, 2013 | 5:00am
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Shane Carruth on self-distributing Upstream Color and “life in the pig corral”
By Sam Adams April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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What did Roger Ebert mean to you?
By Nathan Rabin, John Semley, Noah Cruickshank, Zack Handlen, Joel Keller, Matt Wild, Noel Murray, Marah Eakin, Claire Zulkey, Sam Adams, Tasha Robinson April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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The Holy Mountain takes viewers on the freakiest of freaky journeys
By Scott Tobias April 5, 2013 | 5:00am
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Danny Boyle on blending Trance’s noir and heist elements with his own sensibility
By Tasha Robinson April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Trance
By Tasha Robinson April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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In Pink Floyd: The Wall, a rectum sings, children become sausage, and monsters triumph
By Tasha Robinson April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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Where to start with Elvis Presley’s uneven yet charismatic film career
By Noel Murray April 4, 2013 | 5:00am
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This week we're barely putting up with G.I. Joe: Retaliation
By Amelie Gillette April 3, 2013 | 5:00pm
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Jean Cocteau’s The Blood Of A Poet is a mesmerizingly bizarre feast for the senses
By Mike D'Angelo April 3, 2013 | 5:00am
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7 Faces Of Dr. Lao: Tony Randall as an old Chinese man and a naked, sexy satyr
By Tasha Robinson April 2, 2013 | 5:00am
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Her Master’s Voice is the most profound movie about ventriloquism ever made
By Nathan Rabin April 2, 2013 | 5:00am