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The gripping Israeli drama Policeman finally makes its way to America
By Ben Kenigsberg June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Think Like A Man Too has less Steve Harvey and more generic lousiness
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Murder, abuse, and flaming genitals make Heli hell for squeamish viewers
By Ben Kenigsberg June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Roman Polanski moves another talky drama, Venus In Fur, from stage to screen
By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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With Code Black, a medical student puts his own ER in front of the lens
By Mike D'Angelo June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Paul Haggis crashes back into Crash territory with the absurd Third Person
By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Try as he might, Clint Eastwood can’t overcome the problems of Jersey Boys
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Coherence makes the most of a dizzying science-fiction premise
By A.A. Dowd June 19, 2014 | 5:00am
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Judex, new to Criterion, packs a lot of lunacy into 97 minutes
By Mike D'Angelo June 18, 2014 | 5:00am
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There are shades of Jarmusch and Woody Allen in the wry A Coffee In Berlin
By Nick Schager June 12, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Set at the onset of the AIDS crisis, Test is smarter about bodies than minds
By David Ehrlich June 12, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Ivory Tower weighs the value of college against its increasingly obscene cost
By David Ehrlich June 12, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Garrett Hedlund smokes and scowls his way through tiresome indie Lullaby
By Jesse Hassenger June 12, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Crooks face a coven in Álex De La Iglesia’s typically daft Witching & Bitching
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 2:00pm
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The biopic Violette reduces its famous feminist subject to a whiny bore
By Mike D'Angelo June 12, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Aaron Paul plays a breaking dad in the clichéd indie drama Hellion
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 1:00pm
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How To Train Your Dragon 2 has more dragons, less soul than its predecessor
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
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22 Jump Street is a sequel about sequels
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Signal has a big sci-fi twist—and not much else going for it
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
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Guy Pearce drives angry in The Rover, a flavorful post-apocalyptic thriller
By A.A. Dowd June 12, 2014 | 5:00am
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Agnieszka Holland’s Burning Bush reminds that fighting City Hall takes time
By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2014 | 5:00am
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Subtext or not, All That Heaven Allows works great as straight melodrama
By Mike D'Angelo June 11, 2014 | 5:00am
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Rigor Mortis revives the hopping-vampire movie
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 5:00pm
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As agitprop docs go, Citizen Koch is both passionate and level-headed
By David Ehrlich June 5, 2014 | 4:00pm
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In his uneven Trust Me, Clark Gregg casts himself as a desperate child-star agent
By Jesse Hassenger June 5, 2014 | 3:00pm
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The director of Vincere mines headlines for schematic drama in Dormant Beauty
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 2:00pm
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The Dutch curiosity Borgman strains too hard for instant cult appeal
By Mike D'Angelo June 5, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Edge Of Tomorrow puts Tom Cruise through an action-packed Groundhog Day
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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Jenny Slate shows new shades of funny in the charming Obvious Child
By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Fault In Our Stars moves from page to screen, losing a little of its magic
By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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Mads Mikkelsen fights for justice in the misleadingly retitled Age Of Uprising
By Mike D'Angelo June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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Bobcat Goldthwait’s Willow Creek is basically The Blair Bigfoot Project
By A.A. Dowd June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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Mike Myers’ directorial debut, Supermensch, is a celebrity mash note
By Jesse Hassenger June 5, 2014 | 5:00am
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Montgomery Clift made his screen debut opposite John Wayne in the great Red River
By Mike D'Angelo June 4, 2014 | 5:00am
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Maleficent only half commits to subverting Disney fairy-tale convention
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 8:51pm
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The inane Filth puts James McAvoy in touch with his inner Bad Lieutenant
By David Ehrlich May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Rock critic Toni Collette hunts a famous ex in the engaging Lucky Them
By Mike D'Angelo May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Restrepo follow-up Korengal sorely lacks the original’s immediacy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Seth MacFarlane didn’t bother to think of A Million Ways To Die In The West
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Confused politics lurk beneath the aw-shucks charm of The Grand Seduction
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Jesse Eisenberg makes Night Moves in Kelly Reichardt’s moody new thriller
By A.A. Dowd May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Swedish teen girls go punk, circa 1982, in the irresistible We Are The Best!
By Mike D'Angelo May 29, 2014 | 5:00am
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Wes Anderson’s The Life Aquatic is much better than its initial reviews claimed
By Mike D'Angelo May 28, 2014 | 5:00am
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Robin Williams stars, unconvincingly, as The Angriest Man In Brooklyn
By Jesse Hassenger May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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X-Men: Days Of Future Past embraces geeky, comics-style storytelling
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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Blended is good only by Adam Sandler standards
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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Cold In July thrillingly shuffles genres, before settling on a dumb one
By A.A. Dowd May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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Stand Clear Of The Closing Doors resists intimacy and eschews convention
By David Ehrlich May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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Alejandro Jodorowsky’s The Dance Of Reality is a psychomagical mystery tour
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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Words And Pictures is lopsided in Clive Owen’s favor
By Jesse Hassenger May 22, 2014 | 5:00am
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A People Uncounted offers a crash course in Roma culture
By Jenni Miller May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Fake Case takes another documentary glimpse at Chinese artist Ai Weiwei
By David Ehrlich May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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The maudlin Disney sports movie Million Dollar Arm sends Jon Hamm to India
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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Chinese Puzzle reunites the characters of L'Auberge Espagnole and Russian Dolls
By Mike D'Angelo May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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Bernard Rose’s found-footage flick Sx_Tape is half-clever, all-incompetent
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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A Night In Old Mexico feels like Robert Duvall’s swan song, even if it isn’t
By David Ehrlich May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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James Gray’s The Immigrant is an American masterpiece
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 15, 2014 | 5:00am
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Mr. Magoo remains funny by appealing to our own sense of self-certainty
By Emily St. James May 14, 2014 | 5:00am
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After a long dry spell, Hollywood does Godzilla right
By A.A. Dowd May 13, 2014 | 5:15pm
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Horses Of God sharply dramatizes a real-life terrorist attack
By Nick Schager May 13, 2014 | 5:00am
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Legends Of Oz saddles Dorothy with a team of unworthy replacements
By Kevin McFarland May 9, 2014 | 4:30pm
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May director Lucky McKee takes another misstep with All Cheerleaders Die
By A.A. Dowd May 9, 2014 | 5:00am
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Belle gives Britain’s anti-slavery movement the Masterpiece treatment
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 7:45pm
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A new documentary takes an unfocused look at the Farmland of America
By Jesse Hassenger May 8, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Gia Coppola adapts Palo Alto, a short story collection by James Franco
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 4:00pm
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Fed Up simplifies the facts to feed us a message about obesity
By Mike D'Angelo May 8, 2014 | 3:00pm
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The slasher-musical Stage Fright actively courts camp appreciation
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Neighbors should have wrung more laughs out of its generational-warfare premise
By A.A. Dowd May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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Jon Favreau gets back to his indie roots—sort of—with the comedy Chef
By A.A. Dowd May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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The comedy The Double pits Jesse Eisenberg against…Jesse Eisenberg
By Ben Kenigsberg May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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Philip Seymour Hoffman leads a strong cast in the actors’ picture God’s Pocket
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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Devil’s Knot pointlessly dramatizes the West Memphis Three case
By Ben Kenigsberg May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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The “faith-based” Moms’ Night Out scrubs comedy tropes of their naughtiness
By Mike D'Angelo May 8, 2014 | 5:00am
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Dreyer’s 1925 Master Of The House is shockingly progressive about gender
By Ben Kenigsberg May 7, 2014 | 5:00am
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Blood Glacier is a solid B-monster movie, nothing more or less
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 2, 2014 | 7:08pm
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Elizabeth Banks takes a long Walk Of Shame in this throwback class comedy
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 2, 2014 | 5:29pm
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Wolf Creek 2 is more extreme but less terrifying than the original
By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Ti West plays dumb in The Sacrament, proving he’s too good for found-footage
By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2014 | 5:00pm
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A young nun discovers who she really is in Pawel Pawlikowski’s artful Ida
By A.A. Dowd May 2, 2014 | 5:00am
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Only Kevin Spacey and his friends will get much out of NOW
By Mike D'Angelo May 1, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Thomas Haden Church stars in Whitewash, an undercooked survival thriller
By Jenni Miller May 1, 2014 | 3:00pm
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Beneath The Harvest Sky mucks up a fine regional mood piece with unnecessary plot
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Tony Jaa’s comeback movie, The Protector 2, inspires more laughter than awe
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2014 | 5:00am
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The Amazing Spider-Man 2 suffers from an excess of plot, villains, everything
By A.A. Dowd May 1, 2014 | 5:00am
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With Decoding Annie Parker, the cinematographer of White Chicks gets into directing
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky May 1, 2014 | 5:00am
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Il Sorpasso both exemplifies and perfects the Italian comedy
By David Ehrlich April 30, 2014 | 5:00am
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Gambit is one of those rare films written, but not directed, by the Coen brothers
By Jesse Hassenger April 29, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Make sure to bring a pair of earplugs to The Quiet Ones, the year’s loudest horror movie
By A.A. Dowd April 25, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Brick Mansions remakes District B13 with the late Paul Walker and more cartoon illogic
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2014 | 7:28pm
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No points for guessing the secret identity of The German Doctor’s title character
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2014 | 5:00pm
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Despite its title, Bicycling With Molière is more low comedy than high art
By Mike D'Angelo April 24, 2014 | 3:00pm
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For No Good Reason profiles Hunter S. Thompson’s favorite cartoonist, Ralph Steadman
By Jesse Hassenger April 24, 2014 | 2:00pm
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The Other Woman starts mildly classy—and then out comes the CGI dog shit and transphobia
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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Joss Whedon penned the high-concept romance In Your Eyes, now available to download
By Jesse Hassenger April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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Blue Ruin revitalizes the revenge thriller with eccentric personality
By A.A. Dowd April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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Tom Hardy takes an unsatisfying solo drive in Locke
By A.A. Dowd April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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François Ozon’s Young & Beautiful dances around the motives of a teenage prostitute
By Mike D'Angelo April 24, 2014 | 5:00am
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New to Criterion, Riot In Cell Block 11 is at once an exploitation flick and a message movie
By Mike D'Angelo April 23, 2014 | 5:00am
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A Haunted House 2 is better than its predecessor, but that ain’t saying much
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 18, 2014 | 6:15pm
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The documentary Manakamana offers two hours of prime people watching
By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00pm
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The Final Member is surprisingly moving—for a doc about a penis museum
By Ben Kenigsberg April 17, 2014 | 3:00pm
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There’s nothing worth savoring on this Tasting Menu
By Mike D'Angelo April 17, 2014 | 2:00pm
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Johnny Depp gets digitized in the silly sci-fi polemic Transcendence
By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
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Woody Allen plays a pimp—yes, really—in John Turturro’s Fading Gigolo
By Ben Kenigsberg April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
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The thriller Proxy is at its best when throwing viewers for a loop
By A.A. Dowd April 17, 2014 | 5:00am
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Breaking The Waves was a major turning point in Lars Von Trier’s career
By Mike D'Angelo April 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Heaven Is For Real preaches to the choir but sometimes looks good doing it
By Ignatiy Vishnevetsky April 16, 2014 | 5:00am
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Colin Firth confronts his demons—and an old foe—in The Railway Man
By A.A. Dowd April 10, 2014 | 5:00pm